¿algún intelectual progresista y democrático condenó en la Argentina las matanzas brutales de millares de árabes y musulmanes no árabes, consumadas por islámicos contra muchedumbres de peregrinos y habitantes pobres de incontables poblados en Irak, Pakistán y Afganistán y no, precisamente, por esbirros del imperialismo o de Israel?
Creo que la repuesta es “no”. Seguir leyenda la columna de Eliaschev acá.
J.M. Muñoz uses the Winograd comission report to have a go at Israel for its use of cluster munitions during the Second Lebanon War. Fair enough, up to a point. I had my own say on the subject here. You’d never guess though from reading his article in the flagship of Spanish progressive opinion that Spain itself is a member of an alliance that used cluster munitions extensively in the Kosovo campaign and is a close ally of a country, the United States, that used them in both wars against Saddam Hussein and in the overthrow of the Taliban.
I’ll make a bit of a generalisation and say that general standard of reporting of warfare is poor. Journalists speak of “military officials” when they mean officers, describe every armoured vehicle they see as a tank and every burst of shots they hear as machine gun fire.
Just ocassionally though you come across something absolutely brilliant, like Audrey Gillan’s report of an intense engagement between soldiers of the 2nd Batallion, the Merican Regiment and the Taliban in southern Afghanistan last September. It’s accompanied by an interactive presentation where the soldiers give their own account of events accompanied a graphic representaion of the engagement.
The main thing that strikes me about it is that it shows how little land warfare has changed, in spite of all the technological advances. So much still hangs on the private soldier, the NCO and the junior officer and their willingness to stick together.
