Who is Hillary Clinton to say Assad must go?

[HiPointDem]

90. I have an agenda, but you don't? The fact is that Syria, like Libya and Iraq before it, is not

being targeted for overthrow because of human rights abuses or lack of democracy. The powers targeting it are quite willing to tolerate those things in friendly regimes, and we all know it. We also know that there are big power issues behind the scenes.

The fact that Al-Jazeera has western reporters is no more relevant than the fact that Fox News or CNN or Russia Today or the BBC has western reporters. Your statement implies that western reporters are more likely than other reporters to report "the truth". But people everywhere are most inclined to act as their pocketbook, self-interest and personal safety dictates, and that's as true for western reporters as anyone -- as even a casual overview of US reporting demonstrates. Besides which, as we all know, REPORTERS DON'T DICTATE WHAT APPEARS IN MEDIA. They are the low guys on the totem pole. Their stories are killed or rewritten all the time.

Yes, yes, I'll take your comments about my "ignorance" for what they're worth.