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Freelancing Abroad in a World Obsessed With Trump

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 19 2018, @08:04PM   
from the news-about-news dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"There's always more of a response when I have a Trump peg," Sulome says of her pitches since Trump's election."Why are we giving in to this man's narcissistic dream?" she would like to ask editors. "When people lose sight of what's going on around the world, we allow our government to make foreign policy decisions that don't benefit us. It makes it so much easier for them to do that when we don't have the facts. Like if we don't know that the crisis in Yemen is killing and starving so many people and making Yemenis more extremist, how will people know not to support a policy in which we are attacking Yemenis?"

Applewhite agrees that this exclusive focus on Trump and other domestic issues could be detrimental to Americans' understanding of the world, and our ability to make sound political decisions.

https://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump-impact-foreign-reporting.php

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Original Submission

• It's a civil war. They'll be attacked anyway. It's a civil war. They'll be attacked anyway. (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @08:16PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @08:16PM (#640246)

  Yemen is not much more of a country than Somalia is. It's a place where you can marry a 7-year-old because Muhammed married a little girl (age 6 or 7, counted in an incompatible calendar system) and he was the perfect man so you should act like him. It's a place where people are legitimately stupid. Warlords run around killing people. The central government is unable to control much of the country; they can not exert authority or even travel everywhere. Everything is tribal.

  We didn't start that shit.

  Sure, we drone strike the worst offenders. Obama did that a heck of a lot. Life is dirt cheap in Yemen; they were likely to die soon anyway. The life expectancy is 65 years.

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• Re:It's a civil war. They'll be attacked anyway. Re:It's a civil war. They'll be attacked anyway. (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @11:21PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @11:21PM (#640328)

  It's only a civil war in the sense that the Saudis are bombing the shit out of civilians (with weapons sold to them by the west).

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  • like Europe taking sides in America like Europe taking sides in America (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:25AM (#640386)

    The revolutionary war was a civil war of sorts; British were fighting British who didn't want to be British. Europe noticed, and the French intervened.

    Europe also pitched in for the Civil War. That didn't make the war be not a civil war.

    The USA helped Panama get independence.

    Then there is Korea and Vietnam, which were also civil wars, despite lots of outside help.

    It seems the norm for outsiders to get involved in civil wars.

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    • Re:like Europe taking sides in America (Score: 2) by meustrus on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:42AM

      by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:42AM (#640391)

      Not to mention Syria.

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