{"id":359025,"date":"2018-04-30T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-unrecognized-us-contribution-to-bloodshed-in-syria-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T06:58:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:58:04","slug":"the-unrecognized-us-contribution-to-bloodshed-in-syria-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-unrecognized-us-contribution-to-bloodshed-in-syria-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Unrecognized) US Contribution to Bloodshed in Syria \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The dominant US. media narrative says only the Syrian government has killed anyone during the seven-year conflict while the US role in Syria\u2019s nightmare is blacked out, says As\u2019ad AbuKhalil in the first part of this Consortium News commentary.<\/span><span id=\"more-27364\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>By As`ad AbuKhalil <\/b><i>Special to Consortium News<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Asad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Asad-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27367\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27367\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Asad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\"\/><\/noscript><\/a>The US government\u2014under Barack Obama and Donald Trump\u2014has managed to exonerate itself from responsibility for the carnage in Syria and the prolongation of the war there. Media of the left and right (those ideological distinctions are meaningless when it comes to the coverage of the Syrian war in the US) have contributed to a narrative that basically presents the US as an innocent bystander to the bloodshed in Syria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Worse, even when the US clearly engages in bombing which results in high rates of civilian casualties, the US media and the public attributes benevolent motives to the US\u2014first to Obama and then to Trump. You have to believe that Trump orders bombing of Syria (or \u201cbombing of Bashshar,\u201d as US media like to say, implying that US bombs and rockets don\u2019t fall on innocent Syrians) because Trump is moved by scenes of suffering. For this bizarre narrative to set in, it was necessary to engage in falsification and propaganda that far exceeds the propaganda of any party to the conflict. Far from being an outside party, the US has been heavily involved in the Syrian war from the very beginning\u2014and most probably even before that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The US government (and the compliant media\u2014from the left to the far right) established a convenient explanation for the Syrian conflict: that the US and its allies (some of the most despotic regimes on the face of the earth in addition to the Israeli occupation state) have not contributed to any of the killing in Syria. All the killing in the civil war, this explanation goes\u2014and it has become a civil war, albeit with regional and international dimensions like the Lebanese civil war\u2014has been perpetrated by foes of the US and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27368\" style=\"width: 481px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Civil_war-12042014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Civil_war-12042014-300x192.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-27368\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"301\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27368\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Civil_war-12042014-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"301\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looking for her children in the aftermath of a powerful bomb that blew up in Tariq al-Jdideh in the mid 1980s. (Photo: Khalil Duhaini)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">According to this scenario, none of the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/04\/29\/the-us-unrecognized-contribution-to-bloodshed-in-syria\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dominant US. media narrative says only the Syrian government has killed anyone during the seven-year conflict while the US role in Syria\u2019s nightmare is blacked out, says As\u2019ad AbuKhalil in the first part of this Consortium News commentary. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News The US government\u2014under Barack Obama and Donald Trump\u2014has managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}