By the same token, some Middle Easterners would fall under the lacking self accountability label, but no more than any other country (including US). The lack of self acc'bility trait is distributed across humanity in a bell shaped curve just like traits such as grumpiness, stress proneness, creativity, libido etc.Originally posted by Average Bohra:
Some would fall under your Zombie label, but no more than any other country
What Al Jazeera actually said was thisHere's a quote from the official Wahabi news source, Al Jazeera:
administration's four-year-old programme to eavesdropping, without warrants, on international calls and emails of Americans and others inside the United States with suspected ties to al-Qaida.
So the above was not an Al Jazeera quote but what was acknowledged by the Bush administration only being reported by Al Jazeera.Cheney was speaking amid a burgeoning controversy at home over Bush's acknowledgment of a four-year-old administration program to eavesdrop - without court-approved warrants - on international calls and e-mails of Americans and others inside the US with suspected ties to al-Qaida.
What do you mean by "the rest of you". Nobody in the right mind would give Saddam a free ride. In fact, it's the U.S that gave him a free ride when he was a friend ("our own SOB") and at a time when he was committing his worst atrocities.However, as I have said many a time before, Saddam was no saint and the rest of you tend to give him a free ride.
So, what's your point? I'm sure you don't mean that because of Arab’s corruption and double-standards Israel is justified in occupying their lands and killing Palestinians at will. Sure you don't mean this but this is exactly how you sound.Then there is the question of the lack of accountability and double-standard when it comes to Palestinian corruption, the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Arabs
Yes it should. How many times do you read in the US press about corruption, abuse, lack of freedom and rights etc. in, say Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Turkey? American friends are not to be harassed. Go after them only when they fall out of favour, a la Saddam. Double standards or realpolitik?If the world focused on daily human rights abuses in the Middle East and Africa...
It is this intellectual dishonesty that I will continue to expose.it is a logical fallacy to deflect attention from America's shortcomings by pointing to the greater shortcomings of others. What you fail to understand is that Africa and Middle East have no pretensions to the noble ideals of democracy, freedom and human rights. They don’t give a shit. But America does, and that is why it is held to a higher standard.
This arguement sounds like this:Originally posted by Average Bohra:
I am against the war in Iraq, and our bias toward Israel. However, as I have said many a time before, Saddam was no saint and the rest of you tend to give him a free ride. Then there is the question of the lack of accountability and double-standard when it comes to Palestinian corruption, the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Arabs, to name a few.
If the world focused on daily human rights abuses in the Middle East and Africa with the same zeal as wiretapping phone calls from or to a terrorist, we would all be better served.