Tim Pool

But these are reports coming from Iran, largely, and then reports trickle out into various anti-war and anti-establishment forces, so ready to just believe that the U.S.

killed a bunch of little girls.

Maybe.

I've certainly reported on Obama killing a 16-year-old American citizen.

That was admitted to.

The accusations against Trump that a commando raid he ordered in his first term killed an American girl.

That was accused.

We don't have the evidence or the investigation, but I'd want to see one.

Our concerns are that.

We don't want to hurt innocent people.

We want to stop the bad guys.

But this means that the bad guys can just come out and be like, oh, no, there's a pink backpack in the rubble.

That means you kill children.

And Americans immediately recoil in horror just believing the bad guys.

Again, I'm not saying the story is fake.

I'm saying we are incredibly susceptible.

And at the same time, you can fall victim to the exact same thing, such as with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, where the U.S.

fabricated an attack on one of our warships so that we could justify entering the Vietnam War.

And this is the macro of the micro that I've discussed on this show quite a bit.

And that is, one of my favorite stories in my experience with conflict reporting was