More Fantasy
P. Schultz
January 5,
2014
Here is a headline in the NY Times, as displayed on its main web
page: “Absent U.S., Power Vacuum in the Middle East Lifts Militants.” You will
find the link below.
To me, this is just astounding.
After all, it was the exercise of U.S. power in the Middle East, especially in
the form of Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq that has led to rise of
militancy in the Middle East! And this is to say nothing at all about how U.S.
support for Israel might also contribute to the strength of the militants in
the Middle East.
Oh yes, and by the way, what do you
call a nation which claims as its right to preemptively
strike, that is, wage war on those who it perceives to be its enemies? I suggest that the word “militant”
could be accurately used to describe such a nation. So why is it that the Times feels free to label some in the
Middle East “militants,” but chooses not to do so with regard to the United
States? Y’all know the answer to that question, of course.
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