If Americans treated foreigners like the Fundamentalist Muslims do.
What if Americans went to areas where foreign day laborers waited to be picked up for jobs, and drove car bombs into the lines of them and blew them up. What if we took their bodies and tore them to pieces and dragged them through the streets and burned them and hung them on bridges. What if Americans went to the foreign embassies of America and blew them up and stormed them and dragged their employees outside and beat them and killed them. What if Americans went into mosques and churches and blew up praying worshipers. What if Americans strapped bombs under their tuxes and went to the weddings of foreigners and blew up the wedding parties. What if Americans went to hotels where foreign tourists slept and blew them up. What if Americans went into the cafes where foreign nationals ate and drank and blew them up. What if Americans hijacked planes and flew them into the high rises of foreign countries. What if Americans kidnapped foreigners and taped videos of them begging for their lives and demanding that all Americans in foreign prisons be released, and when the releases were not forthcoming, slit the throats of the kidnapped victims and sent the videos to al-Jazeera. What if Americans picked up hundreds of men and boys and slit their throats and left their bodies in public places to rot and be seen by children. What do you think the left would say then?
posted by Miss Carnivorous @ 6:29 PM
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Death to America :)
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Leila, That's exactly what they would say, dammit!!!
What if Americans imprisoned some hundreds of dubiously guilty people from various parts of the world and kept them locked in a prison camp on a tropical island without access to lawyers, especially if some of those imprisoned ended up there just because somebody informed on them to get a reward or they wore a certain type of wrist watch?
No, I'm neither American nor Muslim. I honestly don't understand, sorry, I do understand but don't accept, that's the difference actually, the constant blaming of the US and militant anti-Americanism. Your examples are very good and show the double standards of some of the most narrow-minded America bashers.
However, we must in my opinion also accept that there are things some Americans do which are prone to be good fertile ground for further hate and conspiracy theories.
Although I do also believe that in case the US only did good things, the conspiracy theories and blame would still be there. There are people for whom facts simply don't matter.
Anon, I agree with you that some of the prisoners in Gitmo are there because they were falsely accused of being terrorists by neighbors and poor people in Afghanistan that were looking for reward money. I still can not compare the temporary, however long, imprisonment of 500 people, some guilty, some not, and most better out of the war til it's over, with the continual slaughter of innocents in Muslim countries by terrorists and suicide bombers. The psychologigal terror of living under such conditions is almost as bad as the danger of real bodily injury and death.
MC, I'm the anon above as well. You're definitely right but I'd like to point out something else as well - that is that Guantanamo is far from being the worst prison in the world. There are innocents there are the most appalling aspect is the US government willing to put itself above normal legal procedures. That's their voluntary decision which is causing them a lot of bad publicity and decreased goodwill even among their usual allies. I don't believe the gains of the current status are more significant than the bad PR.
The attention caused by Guantanamo far more than a prison should normally use. I don't even want to think about prison conditions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and so on. What is sad is that because of the US government's attitude Guantanamo receives all the criticism, not those prison camps which are way more horrible. The US government should definitely know better, well, they do have a couple of spin doctors there...
What if Americans picked up hundreds of men and boys and slit their throats and left their bodies in public places to rot and be seen by children.
Well, thank God, there have never been any lynchings in the US. Nope. Not one.
Unreasonable Anon, you know who you are. You are dragging up ancient history.In fact, Black men are killing white people, and Black people as well, in particularly heinous ways and at many times the rate of white on Black crime, right here in America. Just this evening on the nightly news I heard a Black man try and take out a hit on a 10 year old Black girl in order to prevent her from testifying at his trial for her father's murder. I saw a Black man beat a teenage girl into prostitution, which I consider slavery. The vast majority of whites in this world never owned slaves. Many African tribes are responsible for enslaving other tribes of Africans. The Arabs were, and still are enslaving Blacks. So, you can throw that skunk in the room, but I am throwing it back at you. Lynchings were horrible, terrible things, tragic and a bad scar on our history, but all Americans are not responsible for it any more than all Muslims are responsible for terror attacks.
Reasonable Anon, I also think that most of the not dangerous gitmo prisoners have been weeded out by now. Contrary to popular opinion in Europe, the US military isn't stupid.
the continual slaughter of innocents in Muslim countries by terrorists and suicide bombers.
You don´t undestand a single thing about the world outside USA don´t you ?
Stupid as Bush.
Anon, your only argument is that someone is stupid. You have no real rebuttal and can not argue against the facts, so you resort to name calling. No one that knows me would say that I was stupid. But you make stupid comments on my blog, that means you are stupid!
What if American Larry Silverstein pulled the biggest criminal scam and homicidein US history and President and some others in the Govt. of this country were coooperating with him and what if they plantewd explosives in WTC and Pentagon? What if most USA people on't believe in the 911 Terror version? What then?
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