America and it's double standards

Bush sternly rebukes Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for making anti-Semitic remarks but at the same time he is quite okay with his new deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, equating Islam with evil, the devil and portraying this religion (and the areas where it is practiced) as the great US enemy.



Talk about double standards...



America is a country of extremes: there are so many things good in the American culture but many bad things too... the American president should be above that though, when a country selects a leader who is so extreme as Bush is, it becomes frightening. When the leadership is being steered by right-wing groups who have a clear agenda of manipulating the world to further their own interests, an organisation that has no interest whatsoever in what the rest of the world thinks or does, it becomes a concern for the rest of the world.



The rest of the world, including the Arab countries, certainly notices the double standards. Nowhere else is it more clear than in the endless conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Yesterday again: 11 dead and countless people injured after Israeli gunships pounded civilian areas. Why am I more upset when the Israeli army behaves like this, against when a suicide bomber blows him(her)self up in a crowded place? Because they are the extention of a government of a country and should behave better. The human rights are being trampled on such a huge scale that almost all else pales beside it. The Palestinians are under occupation and are fighting this with the only tools they still have to their disposal. I believe they would immediately have instant world-wide support if they stopped targeting soft targets and went after soldiers (however almost impossible this is, this is a true David/Goliath situation).

Be that as it may, the US hypocrisy in this is almost tangible. The roadmap was buried under the violence coming from Sharon and he was clearly being egged on by the USA. The US vetoing behavior at the UN security council has remained unchanged.



The hypocrisy of it all is galling and is being noticed all over the world.

This is "why they hate the USA" - in a nutshell.



Meanwhile, in another country now emptied out of American troops, Osama bin Laden is still alive and well and very active thank you very much.



I am staying well away from tempting American targets.