US Welcomes Syrian President Who Doesn't Exist, Acknowledging Diplomatic Vacuum
CBS News, in an astonishing display of journalistic rigor, announced that 'Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa' was expected to visit Washington, D.C. this month, citing a 'U.S. envoy.' The slight hitch? Syria's actual president is Bashar al-Assad, and 'Ahmed al-Sharaa' is, quite literally, a figment of their collective editorial imagination. This wasn’t a typo; it was a wholesale invention. One
might charitably wonder if this was a Freudian slip, a deep-seated wish for a more palatable Syrian leader. Or perhaps just a symptom of how little the 'news' actually knows or cares to verify about the region, content to invent leaders rather than acknowledge the geopolitical reality they so often help shape. It begs the question: if the mainstream can conjure entire heads of state, what else are
they fabricating about wars and diplomacy?