POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARGARET WENTE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
‘This regime has taken so many lives. There’s got to be a time when it stops’
Ms. Wente appears now to have exhausted her rational mental faculties in the relentless drive to create propaganda supporting Israel’s military and the Pentagon.
The United States, I remind readers, has killed about a million people in Iraq, unknown tens of thousands in Afghanistan, and three million in Vietnam, and those numbers don’t count all the smaller murderous efforts like Somalia, Pakistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and its loving support for Israel’s bloody predations against largely defenseless people.
In the total of all these places, the United States has created millions of refugees and countless cripples.
It has overthrown legitimate governments all over the world, including democratic ones in Chile, Iran, and Guatamala.
But somehow, Ms. Wente assures us, Iran is so terrible?
Iran, which has started no wars in its entire modern history?
Iran, which while a theocracy (just like Israel) is a relatively open place where one may visit and a great deal of information flows (compared to many other societies on earth)?
Iran, compared to the 3 million annual cases of genital mutilation of women in Africa?
Iran, compared to the routine rape of girls by their fathers and other elders in Africa?
Iran, compare to the bride-burning in India?
Iran, compared to the hideous treatment of millions of widows, including young girls who had been married off for profit to old men who die, in India?
Iran, compared to occupied Afghanistan where a majority of women still wear the burka?
The world is filled with cruelties, and Iran is one of lesser parties to them, but Israel wants Iran attacked, so Ms. Wente does her duty churning out more unbalanced rubbish.
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One further thought.
And just whose holy book is it which commands the stoning of unfaithful women?
Israel doesn't stone women, but the Ultra Orthodox there often attack women they regard as "loose."
There have been cases in recent years of prostitutes having been burned alive in homes mysteriously set alight.
