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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

There vs. Here

I know David Corn has been everyone's favorite whipping boy lately, a la Pajamas Media and being snookered by his buddy Viveca Novak. But I still find him, by-in-large an incisive writer on the left.

Anyway, he had this to say in his blog today:

Imagine this: a drone launched from a ship off the Eastern coast of the United States fires a missile that destroys a neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut. Another direct attack on America from a foreign enemy! The newspapers would cover the story on the front-page for days to come. It would be all over the cable shows. US officials would be bombarded with demands for answers.

Now consider the CIA's recent attack on the Pakistani village of Damadola--an attempt to kill Ayman Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 that seems instead to have ended up blowing apart a dozen or so civilians. This tragic episode in the so-called war on terrorism was off the front pages by Monday and competing for time on national cable news broadcasts with runaway convicts and other local crime news. I'm not all that surprised. This was another example of how what we do there does not fully register here. There are tens of thousands of Pakistanis in the streets and outraged--as they should be--at the violation of their national sovereignty (by a supposed ally!) that led to the killing of their fellow citizens

And now when we attack, we don't even bother to show up in person.

He goes on to correctly point out that little events such as the CIA attack might have some small bearing on answering the question, "why do they hate us?"

Of course, asking that question is a step up from a majority of voters who just don't give a rip.

Written at 8:26 PM by Greyhair.

1 comments

1 Comments:

Deb said...

So true. Heaven forbid that we should be responsible for our actions...and inactions.

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