Saturday, February 04, 2012

Lies about Homs

Comrade Amer is right: if it is proven that Syrian National Council has lied about deaths and massacres in Homs, or even wildly exaggerated, it would a big thing.  It won't or should not be a small matter. It would be high time to 1) ask for accountability for their propaganda which is akin to propaganda of Arab regimes; 2) call on Western journalists to stop parroting or vomiting whatever they receive in their inboxes from the Saudi-funded and Qatari-funded Syrian opposition shops.  Just as they treat the propaganda of the Syrian regime with justifiable skepticism and distrust.  Furthermore, lying or exaggerating about the crimes of the Syrian regime would ultimately help the regime itself and enable it in the future to commit more crimes. This is what some people in the opposition don't understand (or they don't care because some are doing a job).