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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2011-11-22 06:02 pm
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lacking all sense of irony


I've just read the latest tickertape headline on the BBC website:

EGYPT UNREST:
US State Department condemns 'excessive force' used by Egyptian police against protesters



[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2011-11-24 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)

It's OK if WE do it? But it's bad if THEY do it?

That's exactly the message we're sending to the world. And then we get poltroons like Il Buce saying, "They hate us for our freedoms." In fact, "they" hate us for lots of reasons, and some of those reasons are bigoted and vile, but some are more understandable . . . one being that we bellow to the world we're kind and benevolent and good while in fact doing many things so ghastly even Kim Jong Il would think twice.