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on Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:06:31 AM
People remark on how unfair it is that the Sudanese can kill millions and not get the level of condemnation and criticism the Israelis recieve when just 900 are killed. But this "disproportion" has a bright side. If the world paid any attention to the slaughter of of African Christians by the Muslim government of Sudan we would have to sit through a new tortured series of arguments about how the Israeli occupation was the "root cause" of the violence.
Kabuki drama. The Lebanese government has threatened to stop deploying troops to its own territory if the Israelis don't stop unilaterally enforcing the peace agreement. Earlier this week a generation of Frenchmen had outdone their "greatest generation" by retreating even deploying. Now thier colonial students have done their masters one better by deploying the pre-emptive retreat as a threat.
Do you remember how after Timothy McVeigh murdered a few hundred people in Oklahoma commentators and experts were all over the TV set saying how, as awful as his actions were, we can never prevent such crimes and that we have to address the underlying policy complants and greivences of lower class white males if we really want to solve the problem of right wing terrorism?
Neither do I.