Saturday, September 22, 2007
Oceania is at war with Eastasia
We have always been at war with Eurasia. And if you doubt you memory, consider this little refresher on the amorality of international politics from the Village Voice.
New York's tabloids and assorted pols came unglued yesterday about the very idea of Iran's crackpot hardliner Mahmoud Ahmedinejad wanting to visit Ground Zero.It is all politics and rather than have any real animus to each other, what we see is all posturing to give the other guy a hand keeping his people satisfied.
Where were they when Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, whose regime boils people to death, was courted by George W. Bush and Mayor Mike Bloomberg?
Don't let your own blood boil at the thought of a bad guy visiting our sacralized 9/11 site. Condemn it, if you want, but Ahmedinejad was just trying to score political points, as our own pols do all the time at Ground Zero. He got what he wanted: The angry U.S. reaction will play well back home in Tehran, especially with the radical mullahs who really run Iran and like to stir up hatred for the "Great Satan."
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