Phoney Blair - He's mastered the art of faking sincerity; who would ever think that he and his sycophantic, Bush-loving policies could have anything to do with the London bombings? Well, Linda McQuaig for one and Gwynne Dyer for another and me!
Linda McQuaig argues terror attacks are response to military actions:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair went to great lengths last week to suggest that the recent London bombings weren't connected to Britain's role in the occupation of Iraq, but rather to irrational hatred of western culture.
Really?
If you attack your neighbour, kill several of his family members, ransack his house and steal his car, is it logical to conclude that
your neighbour is in a rage against you because he doesn't like how you dress and what movies you enjoy watching?
This is what Gwynne Dyer has to say:Let's talk dirty. The 9/11 suicide hijackers — all Arabs — attacked the U.S. instead of Brazil or Japan because the U.S. government has been neck-deep in the politics of the Arab world for a generation, whereas the Brazilian and Japanese governments haven't. There is a connection between Washington's Mideast policies — its support for oppressive Arab regimes, its military interventions in the region, and its uncritical backing for Israeli government policies — and the fact that Americans have become the preferred targets for Islamist terrorist attacks.
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