Who done it?
We were "back in NPR land" recently. In Lebanon, Pierre Gemayel had been assassinated a few hours earlier. Michael Young was on Melissa Block's show, and was talking about who done it. He edits the OpEd pages of the The Daily Star in Beirut. I was amazed that of all the actors considered, and he did cast a wide net, there was one actor who routinely assassinates, directly or via proxy, targets of opportunity, that he could not even mention. I suppose Irael didn't recently invade Lebanon (again) and doesn't have an interest in restarting the armed operations phase of the Lebanese Civil War. In Michael Young's aural world, uncomented by Melissa Block, every potential actor is examined for dealing, and double dealing, but one.
I was sure I wrote after the defeat of Tsahal in the 33 Day War that they'd go back to assassination, but I can't seem to find it. Oh well.
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Y'know, the same thing occurred to me too. Granted that Syria and her proxies have obvious motives here. But so too does Israel and her proxies.
That nobody is talking about the complete set of potential actors, as you call it, is significant. But exactly what to make of it is something that I have yet to really wrap my mind around. Pondering it feels like playing Chess. You have to be thinking multiple moves ahead in order to successfully navigate the game and the same seems to apply here too.
Posted by: Kevin | November 23, 2006 11:22 AM
Thanks for bringing that up. I listen to NPR a lot, and usually I can see through the big propaganda pushes on stuff. I missed that one though.
It is curious how NPR can be halfway decent for a while and then it's like the screws are applied in the right places and they don't deviate from "the approved line".
Posted by: Bill Lenner | November 23, 2006 08:30 PM