Friday, August 24, 2012

look how the balance articles out on Syria in the Western press

"Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, has been accused of fighting in Syria on behalf of the Assad government; some of the Sunni commanders here in Tripoli boast that several hundred of their own men have gone there to fight Mr. Assad’s forces."   So one side is being "accused"--we don't know by whom or we don't know on what evidence--of participating on the fighting in Syria although no evidence of its participation has been presented, while the other side "boast" of its participation and yet, there is no corrective to the story that Iranian, Iraqi, and Hizbullah fighters are storming into Syria to defend the regime as was stated early on in the Western press.  So the story of foreign fighters in Syria was true all along, but not on the regime side.  Ironic, no?