Honestly, the stereotype that liberals think America is always the villain has
some basis in reality. A SEGMENT of pundits and columnists on the FAR left typically have similar, knee-jerk responses whenever a tragedy is inflicted on American soldiers or civilians by foreign aggressors. Rather than
ever concede fully to sympathy for the United States, they asterik every article with a "yes, but.."
Take Eric Alterman's post-Fallujah tirade, for example:
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Those awful pictures from Falluja are a necessary part of Americans’ education and must be shown to them just as frequently as the deliberate deceptions the media so gullibly passed along when the president was misleading us into war. As horrific and inhuman as these actions may be, Bush asked for this. He invaded another country in near complete ignorance of its history and traditions, in defiance of world opinion, and on the basis of dishonest and trumped-up arguments. What’s more, he and Cheney ensured the failure of the post-war plans by refusing even to consult with experts who knew something about the region, even those in our own government. The result has been an unending series of easily predictable catastrophes that are worsening by the day. Knowing the ways of the all-powerful Karl Rove, I predict he will instruct Bush to cut and run before Election Day. The question is, Will Cheney second the motion? Will the media allow them to get away with it?
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I was against the war, too, but how about directing some of that righteous indignation towards the murderers?
A recent post from AlterNet:
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Residents of the town interviewed for this New York Times article say they support the killing of four American contractors, but not in the dismemberment of their bodies. A 20-year old engineering student says, "I am satisfied that we killed them -- they are Americans and they are foreigners on our land. But I don't agree with what they did with their bodies. It is haram (forbidden)."
This Washington Post story explains the reasons for the rise of this kind of "bloodlust" among ordinary Iraqis. Paola Gasparoli of Occupation Watch says: "It's like all their hopes were destroyed. Families who had some hope the Americans would help Iraq now have sons who were killed or arrested, houses destroyed. This hope has died."
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Well gee, it's not hard to see why the little darlings had to lash out! The big, evil Americans destroyed their hope!
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