POSTED COMMENTS TO A COLUMN BY NEIL REYNOLDS IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
From another reader:
"It [the US] talked Israel into letting Hamas contest Palestinian elections."
'The results of which, when Hamas won, were ignored by both Israel and the US, leaving Abbas in power more than two years after his term officially ended.'
Yes, and further, Mark Shore, Israel's secret service is well known to have helped Hamas in its early days.
It wanted an opponent for Fatah, so that we would end up with the very kind of mess we have.
I am sure in doing so, Israel never once regarded Hamas as a potential dangerous enemy, and it most definitely is not dangerous today.
The "terrorist" bit is a fraud which serves Israel's larger purpose of keeping the Palestinians divided and politically ineffective while Israel slowly continues to absorb more of other people's property.
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A number of readers have looked at my article of some years ago, "Hiroshima, Mon Amour."
I encourage others to do so because it convincingly puts the lie to people like Neil Reynolds and their facile, dishonest generalizations.
Since I wrote it, the assessment for the damage to Iraq has only grown. One scientifically-sound study put it at over half a million deaths, and another at about a million.
There have been more than two million refugees (that glorious bastion of democracy, the U. S., having refused to take any of them). Even today, huge numbers are unemployed and the basic services still do not operate dependably. A generation of people has no chance to make a better life in a country which once had great promise.
Quite an achievement, that.
Needless to say the U.S. has always kept quiet, except for the most innocuous remarks. It never reveals the horrors it has created, just as in the First Gulf War, the bodies of tens of thousands of poor Iraqi conscripts who were forced to sit in sand dunes while being carpet-bombed by B-52s were bulldozed into the ground. No numbers were ever given.
You'll find the essay at:
http://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/hiroshima-mon-amour/
Readers may also enjoy:
"Favorite Contradictions and Absurdities Concerning the War in Iraq":
http://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/favorite-contradictions-and-absurdities-concerning-war-in-iraq/
