Delirium

[fpb]

President Karzai appointed a former President of Afghanistan to head peace negotiations with the Taliban. The Taliban sent a pretend negotiator - one of two; the other must have known what was going ot happen - who blew himself up along with the ex-President.

You would have thought this would give you an idea of what the Taliban think of peace. But not if you are a BBC "journalist". The wretch sent to Afghanistan concluded his report by wondering aloud what concessions could be offered to encourage the Taliban back to the negotiating table, and blaming the victim for being "a deeply divisive figure". The BBC needs a few dozen of its own people to be bloodily and publicly murdered: they seem to have forgotten the meaning of the act of murder.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

Plus, this is not about Afghanistan. It is about the BBC and their utter incapacity to think. You could sense the iron grooves of cliche' andstereotype driving this man down the inevitable alley of further concessions to encourage murderers to "come back to the negotiating table" and of blaming the victim. Thus they are with Israel, thus they were with Northern Ireland, thus they will inevitably repeat themselves with any enemy and any terrorist. These people don't think; they don't learn, because they don't start from reality; they don't abandon obvious rubbish when it is proven to be obvious rubbish. They don't live in the real world. That is why I think they badly need a violent and lengthy wake-up call.

[ihuitl.livejournal.com]

Forgive me, I have Afghanistan on the brain since I'm rather in the middle of it. I hear you on press editorializing though. It reminds me how whenever casualties reach a number divisible by 100, it becomes a "grave milestone", or how uncommon press-grabbing events in war (or otherwise!) turn from isolated incidents into "a disturbing trend", etc.

Maybe it's just for ratings. Still, I can't help but think some people in our countries WANT their own nation, or a Western one, to lose out in global relations, whether we are talking Afghanistan, Ireland, Israel, etc.

Who in America or UK (press or otherwise) would actually root for the Tablian or Hamas, except those who are convinced the West is some evil empire, or that just because someone is at a disadvantage that they are being oppressed/victimized?