Saturday, May 26, 2012

"a blatant violation of international law"

That's a quote from Canada's moral arbiter, The Globe and Mail, with reference to a cluster bomb allegedly dropped by the Sudanese air force on a village in South Sudan.

Note that we are talking about "a" cluster bomb, not hundreds or thousands or let alone hundreds of thousands as NATO used in Yugoslavia, or the US used in Iraq and Afghanistan, or Israel used in Lebanon.

Note also that when the enlightened West uses cluster munitions there is no pompous moralizing emanating from Canada's newspaper of record. This is because we are the "good" guys, and therefore by definition the people who live in the villages we drop them on are bad guys, scumbags, terrorists, etc.

I am reminded again of the scene in A Tiger for Malgudi where the tiger anticipates the day when he will hold the whip and his tormentor will cower in fear.

And still we wonder why "they" hate us.

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