Reply #60: It doesn't matter if Aljazeera is right or not

[NickB79]

What matters is that they are the CNN of the Arab world. What they say is believed by millions of people in the Middle East just as strongly as what Faux News reports is believed by Republicans over here. Even if, by some miracle, no civilians were killed here and they really were all enemy soldiers, it won't matter because the myth of what happened will travel far more widely than the truth (just as myths of found WMD's are still believed by millions of Faux watchers). And as it does, it will turn even more people in the region against us and give them cause to aid the resistance.

No matter what we do, we are screwed simply by being there in the first place.