{"id":23477,"date":"2017-04-05T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23477"},"modified":"2017-04-05T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:41:09","slug":"another-dangerous-rush-to-judgment-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23477","title":{"rendered":"Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong> The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday\u2019s poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity. Again, we see the troubling pattern of verdict first, investigation later, even when that behavior can lead to a dangerous war escalation and many more deaths.<\/p>\n

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Map of Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Before a careful evaluation of the evidence about Tuesday\u2019s tragedy was possible, The New York Times and other major U.S. news outlets had pinned the blame for the scores of dead on the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. That revived demands that the U.S. and other nations establish a \u201cno-fly zone\u201d over Syria, which would amount to launching another \u201cregime change\u201d war and would put America into a likely hot war with nuclear-armed Russia.<\/p>\n

Even as basic facts were still being assembled about Tuesday\u2019s incident, we, the public, were prepped to disbelieve the Syrian government\u2019s response that the poison gas may have come from rebel stockpiles that could have been released either accidentally or intentionally causing the civilian deaths in a town in Idlib Province.<\/p>\n

One possible scenario was that Syrian warplanes bombed a rebel weapons depot where the poison gas was stored, causing the containers to rupture. Another possibility was a staged event by increasingly desperate Al Qaeda jihadists who are known for their disregard for innocent human life.<\/p>\n

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Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria Exclusive: The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry. With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday\u2019s poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,3218,2928,7203,694,776,827],"class_list":["post-23477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-assad","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23478,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477\/revisions\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}