He was dropping bombs, but he is the victim. Denial is key to the psychological and political structures that support this war. The fault for the carnage must always be pegged away from home. But U.S. mainstream media cast no aspersions on the mental health of the man who ordered the carpet bombing. As with the brutality of warfare, so too the geopolitical analysis.
Inversion is to denial what jet fuel is to an air war.
Since last summer we have heard endless insistence that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government must be stopped, for the sake of world peace and human security. Mass media, functioning as key mechanisms of denial, keep distorting lurid events. This truth is so overwhelming that it must be denied at every turn. In Israel, a few innocents have been harmed. In Iraq, a huge number have already been massacred.