No, that's my point. Your position isn't nuanced at all. When They kill, it's a reason to hate them. When we kill, it's a source of pride in our tribe, showing our strength. Everything else, all your "nuance", is just a complicated rationalization of this basic hypocrisy. Sure, it "took you time". It takes a lot of effort, to divide up and sub-catagorize all the various ways people can be killed for political purposes, and then find a way to justify all the killing we do, (even glorify it, even calling on Us to do more of it), and then demonize all the killing They do. The U.S. news media is chock full of this kind of nuance.
My reaction, when I read people calling for Arafat's murder (as you just did), is exactly the same as when I read of people praising Palestinian suicide bombers. Strip away all the "nuance", all the hair-splitting, and those two acts (one of which you condemn, and the other you hope for) are identical. Identical in thought, identical in result. Of course there would be widespread anger in the Arab world if we (or our 51st State) murdered Arafat, and for exactly the same reasons there is widespread anger in Israel, when bombs go off in nightclubs. |
