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Wrong conspiracy

Time:

The debate over what caused the sinking of the South Korean ship is difficult for the general public to follow, with all its discussion of acoustic signatures and electron-dispersive spectroscopy. And it certainly has echoes of conspiracy theories like those surrounding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

By choosing the JFK assassination, Time magazine implies that only cranks and conspiracy theories would doubt the official story on the sinking ship. A better example would have been the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, where a made-up attack on a US battleship escalated the Vietnam War.

Seems odd to me that Time would skip over an actual conspiracy that very closely parallels this incident in favor of the JFK assassination theories.

By fnord12 | August 18, 2010, 2:14 PM | Liberal Outrage


Comments

it's prolly cause it's the only ones the people currently working at Time magazine could think of.