September 04, 2004
Beslan
It took less than a day for the vultures at The Guardian to point a finger of blame for the butchery at Beslan. The guilty: Russia, America and Israel.
But this is only the beginning. The mourning has only begun yet this Guardian comment cannot offer a modicum of blame for the jihadis, men who shot fleeing children in the back. Rather, this lastest massacre is described as "a rational tactic" and an excuse to launch a vicious, inexplicable attack on the government of Nepal.
Cross-posted to The Shotgun.
Posted by the Flea at September 4, 2004 09:08 AM | TrackBackI love the moral equivocation with regard to Nepal. On the one side, we have the government, which is under a constitutional monarchy as in countries like Britain or Canada -- and which has even has the Marxist-Leninists in the prime minister's seat. On the other, we have an armed insurrection which has managed to kill ten thousand over the last ten years.
And so... "An outright victory by either side in Nepal could only come at appalling cost and would presage further suffering. If Nepal is to have a future, it must be a negotiated one - and one which addresses the Nepal's extremes of social injustice."
I have nothing to say to such people, other than a three word phrase involving a well-known four letter expletive and a reflexive statement, as in this column.
Posted by: Ben at September 4, 2004 01:30 PM"has even has the Marxist-Leninists" = "has even had the Marxist-Leninists"
*blush*
Posted by: Ben at September 4, 2004 01:32 PMThe way Ms Hilton's mind works is horrific. It not enough to infer blame on the US for the the pre-9/11 actions of Putin and Sharon (who's Temple Mount visit did not cause the intifada,). She also blames the States for the actions of unscrupulous Indian job-placement agents: "The US was at one end of the long chain of lies that brought the (Nepalese) men to Iraq."
Economic migrants flow from Nepal because decades of economic statism have left that country a sclerotic mess . But even with that, you wouldn't blame dependista economic theorists for the murders in Iraq. Western leftist political theory can be summarized as follows: "absolve the guilty, blame the west, self flagellate, repeat as needed."
