US Backing for 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels: Long Reported, Continually Forgotten
That the US is arming and training Syrian rebels has been well-documented for over two years,
yet Western media have historically suffered from a strange collective
amnesia when reporting this fact. As Ian Sinclair noted last September
in the Huffington Post (9/23/14):
In mid-2012, the most influential newspaper in the world reported the US was helping to arm the rebels–a fact confirmed by subsequent stories in the New York Times itself, as well as numerous reports in other mainstream news outlets around the world.
New York Times map (3/24/13) of arms flowing to Syrian rebels "with help from the CIA." (graphic: Sergio Pecanha/NYT)
