trans-distortion. the type of Zakaria Rajanews favors.

I juxtaposed Fareed Zakaria’s article in Newsweek and its Persian translation by Rajanews, a radical pro-Ahmadinejhad website. It’s funny how Rajanews has distorted the article to fit it into its own narrative. I have back-translated Rajanews’ post. Parts in which the distortion was more meaningful are italicized. Observe:

Newsweek: George W. Bush is fond of describing himself as a "war president." And he has made many decisions involving soldiers and battle. But does this make the description an appropriate one?

Rajanews: George Bush has always described himself as a “war president”. And he has made many decisions involving soldiers and battle. But are these descriptions appropriate for a human?

Newsweek: For a superpower, being involved in a military conflict somewhere is more the norm than the exception. Since 1945, only one president has not presided over combat that engaged American troops—Jimmy Carter.

Rajanews: All these [Bush’s] military campaigns have been an exception among U.S. presidents since 1945.

Newsweek: Britain was in a somewhat similar position in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a result, British forces were fighting someone, somewhere for most of that period.

Rajanews: Britain has been at war everywhere, with everyone.

Newsweek: Compare Bush's "sacrifice" to those made by Americans during World War II, when most able-bodied men were drafted, food was rationed and industries were commandeered to produce military equipment. For example, there were no civilian cars manufactured in the United States from 1941 to 1945.

Rajanews: The chaos created today by Bush around the world is exactly similar to massacres, food shortage and destruction of industry between 1941 and 1945, when no car factory was active in America and all industries were used to manufacture weapons and [military] equipments.

Newsweek: We are in a struggle against Islamic extremism, but it is more like the cold war than a hot war.

Rajanews: It seems that our present war is similar to the Cold War, albeit with more radicalism, but continuing these behaviors is not the solution.

Newsweek: Perhaps the wisest American president during the cold war was Dwight Eisenhower,… Eisenhower refused to follow the French into Vietnam or support the British at Suez…

Rajanews: The solution is Eisenhower’s –United States cleverest president- doctrine that reached his goal by reducing France’s influence in Vietnam and reducing his support for BritainSuez Canal and created equilibrium.

Newsweek: Those are the kinds of challenges that the next president truly needs to address…The only way that position can truly be eroded is by its own actions and overreactions—by unwise and imprudent leadership.

Rajanews: Considering this issue, the major challenges the next U.S. president is going to face are understandable. If we want to tackle our crises, we must watch out radical reactions of our elective unwise, imprudent president.

Among reformist media the president and his circle are notorious for their blatant lies. I think their supporters are earnestly following in the coterie's footsteps. Hmmmm. there's an arabic/Islamic (?) saying: الناس علی دین ملوکهم which means "people carry on the behavior of their rulers".