Duplicity
Most of this country knows the president is a liar, and most of the rest of the world knows it as well. Evidence of that international knowledge comes from an op-ed piece published July 5, 2007 in Canada's The Star. The piece is an extended rant, emotional and jagged, but it makes the point clearly that this administration will lie about the color of the sky, especially when it comes to policy in the Middle East.
George W. Bush "invested the heart of my presidency" to bring democracy to the Middle East. Yet he rejected the result of the Palestinian election won by Hamas, and browbeat the allies into starving the Palestinian people.
The West has swung its support for Mahmoud Abbas now that he has replaced the Hamas government with a handpicked prime minister. As Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, suggests, the West has helped impose one-party rule on the Palestinian body politic. ...
"The U.S. administration's double-speak is breathtakingly shameless," notes Irene Khan of Amnesty International.
The range of it was evident in a Bush speech last week at the Islamic Centre of Washington, where he named an American envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, the 57-nation group representing Muslims.
He claimed that Iraq and Afghanistan are central to the war on terrorism, even as those two failed ventures continue to spawn radicalism and terrorism, including in the West, such as the failed/foiled plots this week in Britain.
Bush also reduced terrorism to nothing more than a by-product of a battle between moderate and extremist Muslims. Events in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Israeli occupied territories have nothing to do with it. He therefore lectured Muslims to condemn "radical extremists" and their "murderous movement."
Never mind that the U.S. and other members of NATO have been far more "murderous" since 9/11, Muslims have already repeatedly condemned the terrorists amidst them. That, however, hasn't and won't reduce terrorism. For that to happen, the world needs to address its causes.
Muslims also agree on the need, as Bush said, to help "the forces of moderation win the great struggle against extremism." What they object to is his methodology, his duplicity, double standards and hypocrisy. So do people everywhere, even if our governments don't. [Emphasis added]
Now, if only the 110th Congress were listening.
George W. Bush "invested the heart of my presidency" to bring democracy to the Middle East. Yet he rejected the result of the Palestinian election won by Hamas, and browbeat the allies into starving the Palestinian people.
The West has swung its support for Mahmoud Abbas now that he has replaced the Hamas government with a handpicked prime minister. As Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, suggests, the West has helped impose one-party rule on the Palestinian body politic. ...
"The U.S. administration's double-speak is breathtakingly shameless," notes Irene Khan of Amnesty International.
The range of it was evident in a Bush speech last week at the Islamic Centre of Washington, where he named an American envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, the 57-nation group representing Muslims.
He claimed that Iraq and Afghanistan are central to the war on terrorism, even as those two failed ventures continue to spawn radicalism and terrorism, including in the West, such as the failed/foiled plots this week in Britain.
Bush also reduced terrorism to nothing more than a by-product of a battle between moderate and extremist Muslims. Events in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Israeli occupied territories have nothing to do with it. He therefore lectured Muslims to condemn "radical extremists" and their "murderous movement."
Never mind that the U.S. and other members of NATO have been far more "murderous" since 9/11, Muslims have already repeatedly condemned the terrorists amidst them. That, however, hasn't and won't reduce terrorism. For that to happen, the world needs to address its causes.
Muslims also agree on the need, as Bush said, to help "the forces of moderation win the great struggle against extremism." What they object to is his methodology, his duplicity, double standards and hypocrisy. So do people everywhere, even if our governments don't. [Emphasis added]
Now, if only the 110th Congress were listening.
Labels: 110th Congress, Foreign Policy, Impeach
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