Friday, October 15, 2010

'JudithMillerizing' Lebanon: Ahmadinejad! Who invited you?

Having found WMDs in Iraq, Judith has time to quote Winep, Memri, Yediot and other objective sources on Lebanon:
" No one in Lebanon seems to know who invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Beirut for a two-day "official visit" ...
Ahmadinejad lost no time in thanking the cheering throngs who lined the streets and pelted his armored car with rice and flowers. These were the tens of thousands of supporters of Hezbollah, Iran's Shiite Muslim ally in Lebanon which the U.S. and Israel have branded a terrorist organization,....
Lebanon's other political leaders, however, undoubtedly don't share the love. Consider what Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, must have been thinking Wednesday as he welcomed the man whose country is indirectly responsible for having killed his father ...his weakness could prove deadly to prospects for an independent Lebanon......
But "as an asymmetrical warrior," writes Lee Smith in the online magazine, Tablet, "Nasrallah understands that even his most capable guerrilla units are no match for Israel." So he is waging war against "the Jewish state's center of gravity—public opinion." Ahmadinejad's threats to wipe Israel off the map and similar vows by his Lebanese creation, Hassan Nasrallah, play well among Arabs, Shiite and Sunni alike...
Small wonder that both Israel and the U.S. are worried about this trip...."

1 comment:

Smug Founding Senior Member of the FLC said...

THis is how desperation degrades the ability of a seasoned reporter to see things as they are. Miller is desperate to get back into the loop. She won't be able to do so because she does give a clear map of what reality is: exactly the opposite of what she says!