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Whacking Permalink Archive 16-12-02 Black Stalin declares war with evil Whitey Robert Mugabe is still at it;
No need to worry about
him though. Malcolm Fraser said he's a stand-up bloke. Rohan
Thavanathan is here, and he's cranky. Middle East "expert" Bobby Fisk - currently in between Osama ejaculations - is doing his standard riff from the anti-american songbook: ie. when asked to discuss the war on terror, talk about something else. In his opening, Bobby asks
and he closes
In the meat of the article, Fisk outlines allegations that the west - back in 1980 - provided Saddam with the ingredients for poison gas to use against 5,000 civilians. These allegations are probably credible given Hussein's past activities and raise yet again the relevant topic of the consequences of supporting tinpot dictators who wear a correct ideological stripe. But as usual with Fisk, there are motives at play, and they have nothing whatever to do with concern for Saddam's victims. Fisk's concern for human rights abuses stretch only as far as they used as examples of American or Israeli tyranny. It's the same here, as he produces his favourite terminally illogical loop: because the West did the wrong thing back then, they shouldn't be allowed to do the right thing now. As usual, Fisk provides no solutions to the Iraq issue (has he ever suggested any solution in the middle east other than the total surrender of Israel?). No ideas, no suggestions, only the endless psychojabbering loop of americans are evil, we should hate them instead! You will find no analysis of the considerations of realpolitik that lead to the west supporting Saddam in the first place. To Fisk, the USA's realpolitik is the equivalent of Saddam's genocide. There is also no acceptance whatsoever in his mind that even if the USA had done a great, deliberate evil in supporting this madman, that this gives them a greater responsibility to remove him. Fisk wants it all ways at once - moral indignation at one-time american support of Saddam, but a refusal to allow them to make amends. In the Fiskworld, the only proper approach to foreign policy is to show America, Israel and their allies as the bad guys in Fisk's own infantile geopolitical fantasyland soap-opera. The suffering of those under Saddam's barbaric rule, the sponsorship of terrorism, the potential for weapons of mass distruction - these are all acceptable problems for Fisk, serving as they do as endless "see? look what this one-time American stooge has done!" examples. There is no Middle East problem Fisk is not willing to tolerate, provided it meets this criteria. Insofar as his voice
is listened to as one of expertise and reason in Middle East issues, Fisk
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