Holding two opposite thoughts in your head simultaneously

I note this article in which the UN charges that the American occupation is essentially starving Iraqi children (which, if true, is horrific and, if not true, is one more example of why the UN is evil). Since the UN and the Left tend to walk the streets in harmony, I wonder what the Left, which serenely accepts that Terri is dying peacefully, makes of this: "The silent daily massacre by hunger is a form of murder," Mr Ziegler said. "It must be battled and eliminated."