July 27, 2006
The Ho Chi Minh Trail to Beirut
A bizarre moral inversion grips most of the world's media, in particular America's legacy press.Those who defend against aggresion are castigated, while the aggressors are celebrated. Modern warfare involves information war, and the strategy and tactics of moral inversion derive from the Vietnam conflict, the crucible of the sensibilities of the media Establishment.
On April 12 this year, the AP reported the 'bloody' killing of Hadil Ghraben, an 8 year old Palestinian girl, and the injuring of 7 of her siblings, in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. Almost 3