“Meanwhile, the Taliban were hopelessly ignorant. They always buried the bodies too quickly for western cameras. Just compare them with the Kosovo Liberation Army, which ensured a storm of western moral outrage at Serbian ethnic cleansing by taking the cameras to remote villages to show them the dead bodies … The US may have wanted to exact revenge, but it was never something anyone could claim to be morally right. The Americans have unleashed a principle of foreign policy – it is legitimate to fight terror with even greater terror – that is causing havoc in the Middle East, could cause more havoc in Kashmir and is being used from China to Zimbabwe to warrant brutal repression.” – Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian. So the attempt to bring justice to the murderers of 3000 civilians “is never something anyone could claim to be morally right.” And the United States and Britain are the moral equivalent of Serbian fascists. I went to school with Madeleine. Whatever happened to her mind?
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