Israel attacks aid ship!
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I fucking hate David Brooks. He's the most mealy minded pundit in the universe. Yet the Times keeps publishing him. Today's fantastic insight:
"The Israelis were clearly not going onto those ships with violence on their minds. The extremists on the boats started beating them and then threw a soldier over the railings. The international community is indulging in the usual double standards when condemning Israel. The world delights in being outraged by Israeli actions but somehow is slow to anger at Arab state supported terror."
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes…
Ahem. *"...slow to anger at Arab state supported terror".
Really? Really?
I'm going to let go the whole concept that soldiers with automatic weapons lowered from helicopter gunships didn't have "violence on their minds" to focus on the second bit...
Can someone get Mr. Brooks on the phone and tell him we have in the last decade invaded, not one, but TWO countries involved in Arab state sponsored terror. One of them invaded on trumped up charges, in fact. Somethign involving Yellow Cake. We have killed countless people in this response. At this moment we also have robots taking out terror suspects in a third Arab/muslim nation (that'd be Pakistan). We have set up a vast shadow security operation with secret jails. We have upended established Constitutional law and I have to take my motherfucking shoes off to get on a fucking plane.
All because we are "slow" to respond to Arab State Supported Terror.
I would say the popularity of shows like "24" which feature a rugged, handsome American operator torturing swarthy arabic persons for vital information might perhaps fall under the "taking delight in being outraged" as well.
What was the last time the US voted against Israel in the UN Security Council? On anything? Ever? Do we have a popular entertainment program that features Israeli human rights violations in heart-gripping episodic fashion? Maybe a television miniseries about the sinking of the USS Liberty maybe? No?
Fucking someone give that asshat a reality fucking pill. But this passes as informed, conventional wisdom in the US leading national newspaper. We're slow to respond to Arab State Terror. What fucking color is the sky in his world?