Fox News Discovers Protests, Forgets 2003 'Freedom' Invasion
Fox News, ever the vigilant watchdogs of 'freedom,' highlights Iranian protests and the resulting hospital strain, meticulously tallying casualties from the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. It's almost touching, this sudden concern for civilian suffering. One wonders where this fervent humanitarianism was when the same network championed the 2003 invasion of Iraq (costing hundreds of
thousands of lives) or remained conspicuously silent on US-sanctioned medical shortages crippling ordinary Iranians. (A 2019 Lancet study, for example, detailed how sanctions created significant medicine scarcity.) This isn't about genuine concern; it's about narrative control. The protests are presented as an isolated, organic outpouring, absolving foreign intervention from any role in
destabilization. Yet, the playbook remains identical to those fostering chaos in Libya and Syria: amplify dissent, ignore underlying economic hardships often exacerbated by Western sanctions, and then hint at the need for 'intervention.' It seems some lives only matter when they can be weaponized against a geopolitical rival, while the very architects of broader regional instability get a Fox News
pass.