If a tree ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Yes and no.

Alternatively, if facts are reported in the news but no one pays attention to them, are those facts still part of the relevant narrative? Nope.

Retired Admirial James Stavridis was on Meet the Press Now yesterday, discussing the Israeli deone strike that killed aid workers. He said something that I think will be completelu ignored, but which I had mentioned in my previous post.

When asked how this could have happened, he attributed it to "deeply flawed intelligence" and he added "certainly the United States has had instances of this kind of event" in the past (recent example: US military admits it killed 10 civilians and targeted wrong vehicle in Kabul airstrike.).



The killing of the aid workers was tragic, but an accident ... the Israelis did not intentionally target those aid workers. If you don't think something like this can happen to innocent civilians in an active war zone, you are not paying attention to what "war" means.

But instead of people pointing this out, they give oxygen to the idea that the killing was intentional ... Chef Jose Andres among them.

And President Biden has called the airstrike, even though a mistake, "outrageous" and "unacceptable". Did he also say this about the civillian-killing airstrike that happened in Afghanistan on his watch? Nope. I think he wants to distance himself from Israel to get the votes of Arab/American Democrats. Doesn't seem right.