I cannot believe the comments on the BBCs Have Your Say on the Iranian presidents visit. Three things are striking about this debate.
Firstly, the positions of the posters are very much split down nationality lines. Americans consistently take an aggressive anti-Ahmadinejad and anti-Iran line. Non-Americans do too, but not so much.
Secondly, people are failing to distinguish between “is Ahmadinejad bad” and “is Iran bad”. They assume they must be equal, despite the President of Iran not actually being that powerful (he doesn’t control the armed forces, for one).
It saddens me to watch the buildup for yet another invasion in the East. For the third time, the US administration is pouring out a non-stop river of bile aimed against a foreign nation, despite the immense hypocrisy or outright deception in everything that is said. And for the third time, some people are swallowing it wholesale. How will history judge us? As a civilisation of gullible idiots?
October 22, 2007 at 8:53 pm |
So true, dude. Glad you’re paying attention.
I stood on a street corner the other day with a sign that said “1,000,000 Iraqis Dead” and I was appalled at the responses people yelled out of their cars. Ignorant things claiming Iraq’s responsibility for September 11, threats to “add one more” by killing me, etc.
And to think I found your page by researching binary compatability between versions of shared libraries in Linux… hah!
Didn’t you hear Osama Bin Laden uses Linux to steal movies and music?
-Alan in America
http://sarainkenya.org
October 31, 2007 at 4:54 am |
Not the history, the present. Nonetheless, the trick is the same everywhere to coax people in a camp against an other. That’s easy to achieve as it’s easier to think in this way.
November 11, 2007 at 6:42 am |
People seem to willfully forget all the times they were being lied to. What they don’t seem to forget, however, is resentment against muslim and middle east people. They seem to be increasingly receptive to the propaganda although they ought to know they’re being fucked with.