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| Rachel Goldberg-Polin (NYT) |
Sadly, even with the massive TV audience 60 Minutes commands,
those viewers represent only a minority of the American people. Given the
biases instilled in the typical American viewer by an otherwise liberal media,
their Democratic role models in Congress, the morally compromised European
leadership beholden to the growing number of Muslim immigrants, and the
right-wing antisemites pretending to oppose only Israel and not the Jewish
people - the true message of those two segments has been lost on many.
That is made clear by the overwhelming number of Americans
(according to recent polls) who oppose the war with Iran. But that statistic is
misleading
Mark Twain is attributed to have said: ‘There are three
kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That the media frequently
cites those numbers to bolster their own opposition to the war bears this out.
They fail to mention that a vast majority of Americans support the goals of the
war: preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, ending its ballistic
missile program, and stopping its spread of terror by proxy. What many oppose
is the method the U.S. has chosen to achieve those objectives. An opposition
heavily fueled by the war’s adverse effect on the economy and the fear of
American casualties.
That raises a simple question: what is the alternative?
Diplomacy has already been tried. And failed. Iran was
caught enriching uranium thus violating JCPOA – the deal the US made with Iran
in 2015 to stop enriching uranium for 10 years. Besides, they continued their
ballistic missile program and supporting terrorism by proxy. JCPOA never even
addressed those issues The October 7th massacre in Israel and
kidnapping of Jews is a brutal reminder of that.
One of the 60 Minutes segments yesterday
featured Rachel Goldberg-Polin…
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