Originally Posted by
Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Ha Strange Bias says you, from a man plugging the work of Jon Pilger.
The thing is I have never pretended America aren't guilty of a lot of malfeasance, unlike Pilger i don't believe they are the beginning and end of all the problems in the world to subscribe to the intractable Noam Chomsky world view.
I am able to see both sides, I find it amusing the reverence given by American politicians to a clear war criminal in Henry Kissinger, it's hypocrisy over Cuba, the protracted Vietnam War which was totally about making money for private defence contractors, Iran-Contra.
Unlike Pilger though I don't equally see the Russians as victims of aggressive expansionist NATO, I don't deny the Serbians massacred Bosnians because the Nationalists all belonged to the Socialist party (although i will give Pilger credit there, he was consistent in his defence for atrocious war crimes committed by non-western states even though he had no dog in the Hunt as the West equally were prepared to ignore what was going on).
It's not about equivalence it's about having no time for people like Pilger who only has an axe to grind because Western Capitalism triumphed over Socialism, to the point where he has so much beef with American imperialism that he will forgive or ignore it where he sees it elsewhere.