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• Wednesday, January 7, 2009 08:42 PM

  its quite the opposite, a certain double standard and blindness to how the west waged war is whats at matter

  First of all theres the lie that one gets the high moral ground just from civilian death count. If this were true nazi germany would have had the moral high ground over both the uk and america during that war. Germany dropped rockets and bombs on london, yet did the british and americans have a "proportionate response"? What we did was turn german cities into rubble, similarly we turned japanese cities into burning cinders. Yet many in the west froth at the mouth over the supposed evils of israels rather restrained and targeted air strikes against hamas. Its a level of hypocrisy that is quite mind numbing, especially when one listens to the terms used to describe israel, from monsterous to war crimes, yet if this standard were applied to the west, the moral charts would simply break as you've gone off the scale set by todays judging of israel. It is rather strange how this works.

  supporting israels right to defend its civilians against attack is perfectly in our national interests. sometimes it takes someone with a spine to stand up to the mob. and thats what the "international community" amounts to these days. they expect israeli civilians to huddle in bomb shelters and effectively condone hamas/palestinian tactics that legitimize targeting of civilians while apparently being blind to the fact that they lose the right to complain about civilian death when they condone intentional targeting of civilians by hamas and the palestinians.

  Never mind in the arab world where the kurds have suffered 32,000 civilian casualties by the hand of the turkish army. yet this country barely gets any attention when such figures would cause moral outrage against israel on a scale no one could imagine. turkey is even considered for EU membership by the same folks who get apoplectic over israel.

  the figures for deaths in the congo from earlier this year was that 40,000+ stil die there a month. there is similar suffernig in the sudan. a million starve under north korean dictatorship. these all get a fraction of a percents coverage compared to the fate of a few million in a tiny country. somethings out of kilter on the international level to let this happen, and so the moral outrage being spewed has to be looked at in this context. it doesn't add up, it is inconsistent to a level that defies reason.

  —wetnap Read wetnap's other letters
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