Suvs and terrorism
At the same time, Colin Powell felt obliged to take time out "to remind the world" that there was an ongoing conflict in the Middle East that should not be lost sight of, despite America's suffering. suvs and terrorism Ethics of war and terrorism. It was then that America went into denial; and the terrorist acts and their causes have thus been distanced, one from the other, since then, with little dissension in the mainstream Western media. The collective denial was confirmed when New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani turned down the donation of $10 million from Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal by cynically subverting what Alwaleed had said about looking at the roots of terrorism in order to eradicate it. "There is no moral equivalent for this attack," Giuliani claimed. suvs and terrorism Terrorist attacks on september 11. "There is no justification for it. " Who had mentioned "justification"? Fighting against this barrage of falsity, there are the John the Baptist figures - notably Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Edward Said, Robert Fisk - crying out in that wilderness inhabited by columnists who have dared to break journalistic ranks. That history will prove them to be right we should have no doubt; time is on the side of the truth, and it will out. suvs and terrorism How terrorism invaded your freedom. In the meantime, these disparate (desperate?) intellectuals preach to their gathering of converts, whose influence on mainstream politics and politicians is less than insignificant. More recently, there was another media capitulation. CNN and the BBC agreed to requests from their respective governments that they air statements by Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda only after they had been "put in their proper context" (i. e. censored). And suddenly, the translators working for both media organizations - through whose garbled ramblings Al-Qaeda's propaganda has anyway been scuppered - have so bad a command of English that they would surely fail the TOEFL examination. If journalists were doing their job, instead of hiding behind the intellectually indefensible and morally reprehensible banner of patriotism, statements issued by, and actions undertaken in the name of, George W. Bush would themselves have been put "in context".
Suvs and terrorism
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