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I've read quite a lot of these articles over the years, and they're always the same. The other side consists of bad guys locking up innocent Americans. The US,
by knallfrosch 2y ago
I've read quite a lot of these articles over the years, and they're always the same.
The other side consists of bad guys locking up innocent Americans. The US, meanwhile, has every right to snatch foreigners in Africa, because the American parliament signed some papers called sanctions. That's totally not politically motivated at all.
Weirdly enough, the arrested US humans are often men of military age with military laurels. The involved US spies are, of course, "long retired" and "the details unclear."
Sure, that's why the US government paid Levinson's family 2.5 million dollar in hush money. And that's the CIA spy they name the law after!
Reports of "CIA planes" in Caracas are wrong, because actually, they belong to a contractor with innocent ties to the government. Okay.
Whenever you think there's some real reporting in there, these articles drop another propaganda bomb.
Shows the value of "embedding" "journalists." The government got a great piece of reporting here. But the reader?
- georgebcrawford 2y agoYep, I couldn't even finish this flag-waving trash. I'm curious to see how others on HN read it. In various corners of the internet I'm getting familiar vibes of post-911 rally-round-the-flag sentiments. Except that as you say, it's not as explicit. Rather than PMCs simply there to enable a thin veil of plausible deniability for the government, the strategy is one more layer removed from outright national interest and more values based. Having said all that, this article is a sharp turn back to bald-faced American exceptionalism.
- vundercind 2y agoThe ex-military guys who were “hiking in the mountains in Iraq and got lost” and ended up captured by Iran was one of the funniest ones. Sure, seems legit.