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Media Should Be Challenging Arguments for War, Not Baying for Blood
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Intercept
Posted: September 15th, 2014
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/04/media-challeng...
Washingtons elite media, as usual, ... are baying for war. They are ... essentially demanding a major military assault [on ISIS]. Watching post-invasion reality in the region should have made it clear to anyone paying any attention at all that ... military action kills not just enemies but innocent civilians, creates refugee crises, ... further destabilizes entire regions, and alters the future in unanticipated and sometimes disastrous ways. In a nation that considers itself peaceful and civilized, the case for military action should be overwhelmingly stronger than the case against. It must face, and survive, aggressive questioning. There is no reason to expect that kind of pushback from within Congress leading figures ... are falling into line with the hawkish consensus for some sort of action. And Vice President Joe Biden [said on September 3] that the U.S. will follow ISIS to the gates of hell. In the absence of a coherent opposition party or movement, its the Fourth Estates duty to ask those questions, and demand not just answers, but evidence to back up those answers. [In an interview,] Paul R. Pillar, formerly the CIAs top Middle East analyst, ... marveled at the kind of mass emotional phenomenon based in part on the recent barbaric beheadings of captured free-lance journalists and the scary maps that make it seem like ISIS is about to take Baghdad. But, he said, the press is getting excited in a way that I think has been blown well out of proportion. Have we considered whether part of the groups purpose is to provoke more U.S. intervention?
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