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I agree with you.

These types of reporting will continue until Assad goes the way of Saddam and Muammar Gaddafi. That's been the goal from Day 1. If we really cared about stuff like this, we need to hear about what's going on in Yemen courtesy of our friends over in Saudi Arabia, and in the Gaza strip. Even events in Bahrain deserve attention.

But no, it's about how hard the Syrian army's hitting the terrorist we're arming.

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Amnesty International works tirelessly to document human rights abuses in all of the other conflicts you mention and has done for many years. What exactly is your point?

Amnesty Internation was duped into false reporting that got us into the first Iraq war. Amnesty later retraced their 84 page report[0].

How is it possible an organization that documents human rights could mislead the world? Any government PR firm, backed by CIA or MI6 can create a list of "witnesses" and have them testify to AI. My point is, just because AI is documenting it, it doesn't mean it's legit. Especially around Syria since there is a lot of documented story fabrication.

[0] https://www.democracynow.org/2003/12/2/a_debate_on_one_of_th...

I think that's a reasonable concern to have. My question was regarding the parent comment's implication that AI themselves are deciding not to publish information on abuses in other areas. The user seems to feel that these things have not been publicised, when in fact there are ongoing awareness campaigns on all of the countries listed.

I think a more charitable interpretation of their point was that AI's information, which is already suspect, is cherry-picked when presented to the US audience(referencing the article in the thread, and many others by US newspapers) to form the narrative that Assad must be ousted.

Exactly. It's Afghanistan with the Soviets, all over again... the blowback is going to be ugly and protracted.

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