[lbo-talk] verification, perception

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 19 06:54:18 PDT 2007


A delicious paragraph from the NYT's account of the Blackwater affair:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/world/middleeast/19blackwater.html? pagewanted=2&_r=1>


> The Iraqis' accounts have not been verified, but the anger in their
> telling served to reinforce the feeling among Iraqis here that
> private security companies care little for Iraqi lives. In a war
> where perceptions are paramount, the effect is poisonous.

A professor could turn this little paragraph into an entire seminar on ideology.

Doug



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