Fallujah and London — in deepest denial
Gary Younge, The Hindu, Tuesday Jul 12 2005
We know what took place. Certain people, with no regard for law, order or our way of life, came to London and trashed it. With scant regard for human life or political consequences, employing violence as their sole instrument of persuasion, they slaughtered innocent people indiscriminately.The trouble is there is nothing in the last paragraph that could not just as easily be said from Fallujah as it could from London. The two should not be equated — with over 1,000 people killed or injured, half its housing wrecked and almost every school and mosque damaged or flattened, what Fallujah went through at the hands of the U.S. military, with British support, was more deadly.
We know what took place. Certain people, with no regard for law, order or our way of life, came to London and trashed it. With scant regard for human life or political consequences, employing violence as their sole instrument of persuasion, they slaughtered innocent people indiscriminately.The trouble is there is nothing in the last paragraph that could not just as easily be said from Fallujah as it could from London. The two should not be equated — with over 1,000 people killed or injured, half its housing wrecked and almost every school and mosque damaged or flattened, what Fallujah went through at the hands of the U.S. military, with British support, was more deadly.
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