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Mark Steel is just a second-rate propagandist.
Of course, China has its flaws, and some serious ones.
But perspective is everything.
After all, let’s not forget that Britain did help mightily
in killing about a million people in Iraq, the creation of a couple of million miserable
refugees, and the destruction of large parts of an advanced society for generations.
And Britain happily supports America's horror in Syria, the letting-loose
of tens of thousands of well-equipped cutthroats in an effort to destroy a
beautiful land.
I haven't heard any public cries from Downing Street over
the Saudi terror campaign in Yemen, including the use of cluster bombs on civilians.
Perhaps I missed something?
No, I don't think I did. There was nothing either about all
the Saudi beheadings and a sentence of crucifixion either. But there was a huge
secret arms sale and a project for building prisons in one of the world’s great
tyrannies.
Please, stuff like this of Mr. Steel's is just clap-trap. I
doubt very much he raised his voice on such other atrocities as Israel's
murderous abuse of several million Palestinians for half a century. This
remains the world's single greatest example of a complete squashing of human
rights and decency: the Palestinians have no votes, no rights, no future, and
they can’t even enjoy their homes and farms with any security. Again, that is a
matter about which we never hear from good old David or Mr. Steel for that
matter.
After all, for David to do so, even slightly, would
seriously harm relations with Rupert Murdoch, a man, by the way, whose British
publishing empire was built in part on hacking the intimate telephone conversations
of hundreds of unfortunate people, including victims of violent crime. To say
nothing of casting a pall over those delightful country weekends with Rupert’s
designated creature in Britain, red-haired bombshell Rebekah Brooks
Interesting, despite China's shortcomings in human rights,
it has pretty well lived in peace with its neighbors for its entire modern
existence.
That certainly cannot be said of the United States or its
colony in the Middle East, the two most dangerous states in the modern world,
both of whom get David's unlimited support and affection.
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America has given us nothing but wars and coups and “interventions”
since the end of the Second World War. The toll of their attempts to control
the planet, including such glorious episodes as the Vietnam War, has been
literally as many people killed - mostly civilian, as is the case in all modern
war - as were killed in the Holocaust.
Three million victims just in Vietnam, another million in
Iraq, a million in Cambodia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Chile,
Guatemala, and on and on.
Israel, America's colony in the Middle East, has behaved as
a miniature replica of the mother country. It has done nothing but kill and
suppress people for 65 years, having invaded every neighbor that it has, many
of them two or three times.
I don't see how anyone can write what Mark Steel writes
without being entirely ignorant of modern history or deliberately ignoring it.
In either case, the result is not worth publishing.
