Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Have you added up all the Iraqi civilians killed by various factions of Iraqi and non-Iraqi terrorists and compared the number to that of Iraqi civilians killed by US and other foreign troops who invaded and have occupied Iraq and by economic sanctions before the invasion and occupation?
Americans who vote for John Kerry who will be the next POTUS, aka the biggest terrorist and war criminal, have no moral standing to pretend to be appalled by un-American terrorists.
Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral standing to criticize foreign terrorists.
What a load of crap. Elections are about contesting for power, and often involve debased compromises; votes aren't symptoms of moral purity.
And why is it impossible to hold two thoughts in mind at once? The sanctions were murderous and the war a horrible crime. There's no doubt that the U.S. and its very junior partners have killed far more Iraqi civilians than the "resistance." But there are some people on the western left - some of them members of PEN-L, even - who can't acknowledge that a lot of the Iraqi "resistance" consists of jihadists and unreconstructed Saddamites, i.e., absolutely awful forces.
As Christian Parenti said when he returned from his first trip to Iraq - there's no way anything good can come of this.
Doug
