Gollin's Tit in the Wringer

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Ward Churchill said that the US treated other countries like crap and 9/11 was payback. But that's true. Isn't it just possible that the US has done something to deserve the negative image it has in much of the world?

The punishment meted out to Churchill is all too common for people with politically incorrect ideas. A doctor who criticizes the medical establishment suddenly finds himself before a disciplinary committee for poor procedure on an ingrown toenail. Complaints that are routinely dismissed take on huge importance.

A random website:

http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/20...t-in-2009/

big brother is as treacherous and vile as a snake.
I'll say it again and again...
What is frightening is not the bellyaching over some 'politically incorrect' remarks that were engineered by their author to sound all the more sensational than the underlying conjecture would warrant...in fact, while it is true that trying to play world's cop and invading countries does bring retaliation, Churchill's article is deliberately sensational
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html

In fact it mixes all sorts of things into one...
the 1990 operation to free Kuwait cannot be compared with the recent invasion.

Second, it over exaggerates the importance of the Twin Towers personnel...
Sure, you may have had (as some theories claim) 'secret offices' or 'underground intelligence headquarters', but the vast bulk of people were little Joes going to work and perhaps tourists visiting the skyscraper.

Third, he unmercifully scorches capitalism, yet forgets to add that it's from the same mill that comes the moolah for 'affirmative actions' and princely 'welfare schemes' that make the delight of so many of his 'oppressed' Africans and Indians...you cannot expose blood-stained money only when it's not coming into your pockets.

Fourth, he conveniently underplays the role of fundamentalism that none else denies. Sure, maybe the mass of gullible Muslim zealots is duped by skilled and ruthless politicians posing as theologians while orchestrating secular agendas, much like western gullible zealots are duped by equally skilled and ruthless politicians who are interested in oil but tell you that they are in bringing porn cable TV and barber's shops to oppressed foreigners...yet fundamentalism exists.
Centuries after the crusades, muslim Turks were trying to capture Vienna...what about the wonderful roman civilization in northern Africa, or the Greek-byzantine one in the middle east, that had flourished for centuries?
They were wiped like dog crap from muslim invaders' boots, so let's not pretend they are like the Indians...