Posted by caraher on January 19, 2006, at 11:16:21
In reply to Re: could this be true? » caraher, posted by zeugma on January 18, 2006, at 18:46:08
> I wonder how many people in the U.S. really care about this.
I think a truly frightening number of Americans would actually approve of bombing Al Jazeera. Not a majority, mind you, but more than just a few "fringe" characters. Some right-wing pundits muse openly about how appropriate it would be for their political opponents to suffer assorted gruesome fates (evidently reasoning that anyone opposed to the war is in favor of terror and tyranny and thus deserves to suffer the way, say, Saddam's enemies in Iraq did). If that's how they think about fellow Americans one can only imagine how much less regard they might have for employees of what they consider a pro-terrorism news organization!
I live in a "red state" that voted overwhelmingly for Bush, and it's not unusual to see letters to the editor in the local paper such as one a year or so ago that advocated indiscriminate automatic weapons fire as the one sure path to order and stability in Iraq.
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