US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera news coverage

Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by dragonwriter on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:34PM (#38044882)

Neither of the warring parties stands in opposition to genocide; both have both used the genocidal “no innocent civilians” argument in PR, and acted consistent with it.

This would be a tricky thing for the US to address on its own, but its made more complex by the fact that one of the genocidal warring parties is also acting as a proxy for a foreign power who is also waging a proxy war on multiple fronts against the US, and their actions (while it would be oversimplifying to call them merely a part of it) are not disconnected from that proxy war.

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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by krapp on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:47PM (#38044991)

I feel like the current administration could have handled things in such a way as to not look so... eager for blood?

And sure, neither side is an angel but not supporting genocide or terrorism either way and supporting a ceasefire or at least condemning the violence on both sides is a legitimate stance to take and the US didn't even go that far.

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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by dragonwriter on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:36PM (#38045335)

I am only not more directly critical of the Administration's response as there are indications that they are working to (and maybe a having some, though far from enough success) moderate Israel's actions (delaying a ground invasion, among other things), and cannot discount the possibility that a better rhetorical position would have worse substantive results.

At the same time... I don't disagree with any of your characterization of the problems with the positioning of the Administration, outside of that consideration.

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