Everyone Has An Opinion
Even ill-informed people like Gloria Borger, who wants A little outrage, please, Mr. President
Case in point: When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the podium at the United Nations conference in Geneva on Monday to call Israel a “cruel and repressive racist regime,” we might have said something.
What might we have said, that the ultranationalist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, is just kidding when he calls for the expulsion of Arabs from Israel? Do you read any Israeli newspapers other than the Jerusalem Post, do you know what the Israeli government does, even when it isn’t actively bombing the Palestinians?
Do you have no idea why Hugo Chavez hates the US? Are you unaware that the Bush White House was wide open to the people who led a coup against Chavez? Have you missed all of the threats directed at Chavez by the Bush administration?
FYI: Obama has since labeled the Ahmadinejad comments as “appalling”, but has nothing to say about Lieberman’s plan to institute apartheid in Israel.
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I can usually summon up a bit of pity for the willfully ignorant, but not with this crowd.
They miss the YEEHAW age of ‘diplomacy’.
I guess because it worked so well – in their own minds?
They can’t differentiate between garnering respect and engendering fear in a dangerous world.
And that makes it more dangerous.
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Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and Lieberman are all jerks, in the same mold as W or Cheney. If you are going to be “appalled” by the words of one, you should be appalled by them all. I don’t pick and choose among the haters of this world, I don’t like or support any of them, and don’t appreciated the fact that some of them, like the Castro brothers, get to hang onto power because the US bad-mouths them.
I’m sick of Americans who don’t know that Central and South Americans really dislike the government of the US, and have for a very long time. I really dislike the fact that Americans don’t understand why we’re hated around the world, because they don’t know what our government has been up to.
This isn’t something from a text book, one of my great grandfathers was in the Philippines occupation, and my paternal grandfather was part of the Cuban occupation. This is family history, not just US history. This crap happened and people don’t forget it.