Ndiani Ari Kudzora Kwekuti Tinorangarira Sei Hondo yeIraq?

naJeremy Earp, World BEYOND War, March 16, 2023

"Hondo dzose dzinorwiwa kaviri, kekutanga panhandare yehondo, kechipiri mundangariro."
— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Sezvo vezvenhau veUS vakamira vachimira kurangarira kupinda kweUS muIraq, zviri pachena kuti pane zvakawanda zvavanotarisira kuti tichakanganwa - chekutanga uye chepamusoro, kupindirana kwevezvenhau mukurova rutsigiro rweruzhinji kuhondo.

Asi paunonyanya kuchera munhau dzakakura kubva panguva iyoyo, sezvakaitwa nechikwata chedu svondo rapfuura patakabatanidza. iyi montage yemaminetsi mashanu kubva mufirimu redu ra2007 Hondo Yakagadzirwa Nyore, zvakatonyanya kuoma kukanganwa kuti nhepfenyuro dzenhau dzakajeka sei pakutepfenyura uye tambo dzakaparadzira zvisina tsarukano nhema dzehutongi hweBush uye nekusabatanidza manzwi anopikisa.

Iwo manhamba haanyepe. Chirevo che2003 nevemedia watchdog Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) vakawana kuti mumavhiki maviri ekutanga kusvika kuhondo, ABC World News, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, uye PBS Newshour yakaratidza huwandu hwe267 American nyanzvi, vaongorori, uye vatauri pakhamera kuti vabatsire kuita pfungwa yekufora kuenda kuhondo. Paava 267 vashanyi, vanokatyamadza makumi manomwe neshanu muzana vaive varipo kana vekare vehurumende kana vakuru vemauto, uye huwandu hukuru hwe mumwe akaratidza kusava nechokwadi kupi nokupi.

Zvichakadaro, munyika iri kukurumidza kukura yenhau dzetambo, Fox News's kutaura kwakaoma, pro-war jingoism yakanga iri kuisa chiyero chevatariri-vanongwarira vatariri pane akawanda e "yakasununguka" tambo network. MSNBC neCNN, vachinzwa kupisa kweiyo indasitiri yemukati yaifona "Fox effect," vaiyedza neshungu kuburitsa mukwikwidzi wavo webapiro rekurudyi - uye mumwe nemumwe - nekubvisa zvine mutsindo manzwi uye kuona kuti ndiani angaridza ngoma dzehondo zvakanyanya.

PaMSNBC, sezvo kurwiswa kweIraq kwakasvika mukutanga kwa2003, vatariri venetiweki akasarudza kudzinga Phil Donahue kunyangwe show yake yaive neakanyanya ratings pachiteshi. A yadeuka yemukati memo akatsanangura kuti manejimendi epamusoro akaona Donahue se "akaneta, akasununguka akasununguka" angave "chiso chakaoma cheveruzhinji cheNBC munguva yehondo." Achiona kuti Donahue "anoratidzika kunge anofarira kuunza vashanyi vanopesana nehondo, vanopokana-Bush uye vanopokana nezvinangwa zvehutongi," memo yakayambira zvakashata kuti show yake inogona kupedzisira yave "imba yehondo yerusununguko panguva imwe chete. kuti vakwikwidzi vedu vari kusimudza mureza pamukana wose.”

Hazvifanirwe kupera, mukuru wenhau weCNN Eason Jordan aizozvikudza pamhepo kuti akanga asangana nevakuru vePentagon panguva yekumhanya-mhanya kusvika pakuvhota kuti vawane mvumo yehondo ye-kamera "nyanzvi" network yaizovimba nayo. "Ini ndinofunga zvakakosha kuti nyanzvi dzitsanangure nezvehondo uye kutsanangura mashandisirwo emauto, kutsanangura maitiro, kutaura nezve zano riri kukonzeresa kunetsana," Jordan akatsanangura. “Ndakaenda kuPentagon ini pachangu kakawanda hondo isati yatanga ndokusangana nevanhu vanokosha ikoko ndokuti . . . hevano vakuru vemauto atiri kufunga kuramba vachitipa zano pamhepo uye kure nezvehondo, uye tine zvigunwe zvikuru pamusoro pavo vese. Izvozvo zvakakosha. "

Sekuona kwaNorman Solomon mufirimu redu Hondo Yakagadzirwa Nyore, iyo yatakabva mubhuku rake rezita rimwe chetero, the bedrock democratic musimboti weakazvimirira, adversarial press yakangokandwa kunze nepahwindo. “Kazhinji vatori venhau vanopomera hurumende mhosva yekutadza kwevatori venhau pachavo kuita nhau dzakazvimirira,” anodaro Solomon. “Asi hapana akamanikidza masangano makuru akaita seCNN kuita tsinhiro dzakawanda kubva kuvakuru vemauto vakasiya basa nevamiriri vemauto nevamwe vese . . . Yakanga isiri chinhu chekuvanza, pakupedzisira. Chaive chinhu chekutaura kuvanhu vekuAmerica, 'Onai, isu tiri vatambi vechikwata. Tinogona kunge tiri vezvenhau, asi isu tiri kudivi rimwe chete uye peji rakafanana nePentagon.' . . . Uye izvo zvinopesana zvakananga nepfungwa yemuchina yakazvimirira. ”

Mhedzisiro yacho haina kumbokakavadzana, inotungamirirwa nekunyengera, vakamhanyira muhondo yekusarudza yaizoenderera mberi kumisa dunhu, kuwedzera hugandanga hwepasi rose, kubuda ropa matriyoni emadhora kubva kuhomwe yeUS, uye kuuraya zviuru zvevashandi veUS uye mazana ezviuru zveIraqis, vazhinji vavo vanhuwo zvavo vasina mhosva. Asi makumi maviri emakore gare gare, sezvo isu tichiwedzera kuswedera pedyo hondo itsva dzinogona kuita njodzi, pave pasina kumbozvidavirira kana kushuma kwakasimba munhau dzenhau kutiyeuchidza nezvavo pachake basa rakasimba mukutengesa hondo yeIraq.

Icho chiitiko chekukanganwa isu hatikwanise kutenga, kunyanya seakawanda ematanho akafanana enhau kubva makore makumi maviri apfuura azvidzokorora pamhepo - kubva pachiyero chakazara. reboot uye inorapa yevanotungamira Iraq war architects uye cheerleaders kune vezvenhau vanoramba vachivimba zvakanyanya ne "nyanzvi" yakatorwa kubva pamusuwo unotenderera nyika yePentagon uye indasitiri yezvombo (kazhinji pasina kuburitswa).

"Memory inyanzvi mune chero nyika, kunyanya ndangariro dzehondo," Pulitzer Prize-anohwina novelist. Viet Thanh Nguyen akanyora. "Nekudzora rondedzero yehondo dzatakarwa, tinopembedza hondo dzatiri kuzorwa panguva ino."

Sezvo isu tichicherekedza makore makumi maviri ekupondwa kweUS kuIraq, zvakakosha kudzoreredza ndangariro yehondo iyi kwete kubva kuvakuru veBush manejimendi vakairwisa, asiwo kubva kune yekambani media system yakabatsira kuitengesa uye yakaedza kudzora. nhoroondo kubva ipapo.

Jeremy Earp ndiye Production Director we Media Education Foundation (MEF) uye co-director, naLoretta Alper, weMEF documentary "Hondo Yakaitwa Nyore: MaPresident & Pundits Vanoramba Vachitisundira Kurufu," naNorman Solomon. Kucherekedza zuva remakumi maviri rekurangarira kurwiswa kweIraq, RootsAction Education Fund ichave ichiita ratidziro ye "War Made Easy" musi waKurume 20th na20:6 PM Eastern, ichiteverwa nehurukuro yepaneru naSoromoni, Dennis Kucinich, Kathy Kelly, Marcy Winograd, India Walton, naDavid Swanson. Click pano kunyoresa chiitiko, uye tinya pano kufambisa "War Made Easy" pamberi pemahara.