Where's the outrage?

Submitted by Michael (United States), Jul 4, 2008 at 12:00

You're perfectly correct, Breaking News. It's reprehensible that Muslim fanatics should be threatening to blow up Danish cartoonists, merely for slandering their religion. But what about our own troops, who blew up the Al Jazeera office in Baghdad using high powered shells, at point blank range (no targeting error there)? Was their crime in fact considered to be the slandering of Americanism?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2931097.stm http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030409-killed-journalists01.htm

Three journalists were murdered there, and our forces never even apologized. Note that this was an actual attack, with actual dead bodies. The Danish cartoonists, purportedly under mortal threat, have to this date never been in actual danger. And that all happened several years ago. It looks a lot like our pattern is to kill people while giving voice to the highest of platitudes. While theirs is to loudly proclaim their intent to use violence, and then not always to actually use it.

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