As an American, if you had told me over a decade ago that I wouldn't give two shits about another nation attacking us, I would have gotten pretty upset.
But here we are.
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And us media will cover the outcomes like they did the last time. As little as possible, and only after some seemingly unrelated thing demands it. Like soldiers trying to commit suicide because of deteriated conditions and stress. Because the base they were supposed to be resupplied from was evaporated unreported a week before. US media is a joke.
Worse than a joke they are actively colluding... Remember the 24 \ 7 cable news coverage of desert storm with embedded reporters in the country that was being bombed? News is big business... Things like this generate big money. They don't want the money or the honesty ... They are capitulating.
They are wholly owned now by people who already have money. Or who stand to make money while keeping people ignorant. But absolutely. Compare the coverage from 20 years ago to today. It's clear, the failure that is. And the coverage 20 years ago wasn't good. But at least they were out there embedded and Reporting something. Now they're all just sitting back home waiting to be told. Because the boss won't spend money to go out there and Report.
I don't know if you're this old but I dearly miss the days of Walter Cronkite and the equal time doctrine.
Only just. As a child of the seventies and eighties. He retired a bit before I became a teenager. The worst you'd generally have to worry about with him might be issues of framing and omission. And generally never intentionally or with malice. That's almost unimaginable today. Where its S. O. P.
Bruh Iran is the enemy of freedom! Ask any Iranian
Edit: these down votes are eye opening. Y'all weird about the truth
First, that is completely off-topic. Second, America is also the enemy of freedom. Ask any Iranian, or Palestinian, or Latin American, or... you get the point.
There’s not that much freedom in America for many Americans. Same in the UK who are throwing the terrorism label around a little too freely and have restricted the right to protest a lot.
Sadly, so is the US. Real change comes from within. If the people can't make it themselves. If they're relying on someone else to give it to him. They'll never get it. This goes for Americans as much as Iranians.
All anyone needs to do is look at how many different times over how many different decades we rug pulled the kurds. In Bosnia and elsewhere. Our government serves its interests only and then it gets out. It doesn't really care about freedom.
And I think a lot of the push back you're getting, is that specifically in this case. Its the United States and it's meddling is the cause of a lot of their problems. They revolutioned themselves into this as a result. Only another revolutionary change on their part will change it. Hopefully a more informed, less reactionary one.
Honestly I originally read your post with a sarcastic tone.
The USA and Iran are on completely different levels.
Domestically, Iran is worse, but internationally, the US has been the biggest detriment to human freedom since the end of world war 2.
This is accurate
I agree. While Iran has fomented unrest elsewhere. They've never been as boots on the ground and directly engaged with it as the United States has.
until I read your edit I thought you were being sarcastic. Im not saying they are not bad but we are the agressors here. We caused the problem and are exacerbating it.
Iranians have been begging for help from the west for years
Bombing them isn't help.
maybe someday they will get it rather than it being made worse.