American Dream » Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:49 am wrote:RT and pro-war 'anti-war' dupes bash White Helmets
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 03/05/2017
The inevitable RT runs a puff-piece on so-called "anti-war protesters" who crashed a pop-up orchestral and choral performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy in Manhattan's Grand Central Station that had been called to support the White Helmets and promote the documentary about them. The protesters obnoxiously mixed themselves up with the orchestra while holding their nonsensical signs reading "White Helmets are US Propaganda," "No US bases in Syria," and "This is US war agenda." Amazingly, the RT account puts "humanitarian" in scare quotes before "White Helmets"—as if rescuing trapped civilians from bombed-out buildings were not humanitarian. But there are, of course, no quotes around the phrase "anti-war protesters," despite the fact that these sinister clowns (apparently from the group Hands Off Syria) are objectively pro-war, and evidently oppose any aid to the victims of Russian and Assad regime air-strikes.
We could also point out the hilarious irony of the name "Hands Off Syria," as they obviously support the massive Russian foreign intervention in Syria. And the further hilarious irony that these "anti-war activists" are on the same side as Donald Trump, whose Homeland Security department barred the Syrian cinematographer who worked on the documentary, Khaled Khatib, from entering the country to attend the Oscars.
Nothing is more sickening than pro-war "anti-war" jive.
This is surreal. Anyone who still thinks the White Helmets were a genuine, indigenous, altruistic humanitarian force—and not composed of ISIS terrorists, who are clearly documented in both roles—just has not done their homework, or they have turned off their critical thinking abilities.
And there's a lot of speculation and assumption going on in that article: "they obviously support the massive Russian foreign intervention"; "anti-war activists" are on the same side as Donald Trump"; "evidently oppose any aid to the victims." Whaa?? Those are hallmarks of a disengenuous argument—weak inferences to paint your target as "sinister."
AD, are you in favor of putting U.S. military bases in Syria, and promoting a U.S. military invasion of Syria? If you are, why not just come out and say so?