Friday, August 22, 2008

A stunning double standard

Robert Parry succinctly summarizes the problem with double standards by which U.S. media and political elites see fit to condemn Russia while having raised nary a discouraging word over the U.S. invasion of Iraq (Iraq, Panama, Grenada, etc, etc)


While major U.S. news outlets may be comfortable wearing blinders that let them see only wrongdoing by others, the rest of the world views the outrage from Bush and the neocons over Russia as a stunning double standard.


This larger problem is that the Bush administration – along with its neocon allies and many establishment Democrats – have lost any credibility with the world community when it comes to invoking international law.