Quote Originally Posted by Basil77 View Post
Here is an interesting article about him from 1993:



"Oh what a freedom loving hero! Good thing the US supported the mujahedin (today's taliban) with weapons, so they could fight those evil Russian Communists.... "


This kind of contradiction and TOTAL lack of principle and moral integrity is exactly why I loathe US foreign policy.

Whatever else you can say about the Soviet Union, at least they acted more or less consistently, had some political and philosophical guidelines that they actually stuck to. They were quite open with what their international objectives were, and how they went about supporting those.

Whereas with the US, it is liable to support practically ANYONE or any cause that supports the economic interests of its multinational corporations, and/or it's anti-Russia agenda.

Whether its Muslim fundamentalists that won't even allow women to drive a car, Nazis, murderous right wing dictators in South America or a regime carrying out a technically illegal occupation in Israel, brutal dictatorships in the gulf, like Bahrain - etc etc.

There is a total lack of any kind of any guiding principle.
To make up for that, it lashes out the propaganda, in a way that makes the Soviet Union look like amateurs.
In the USSR, they called propaganda propaganda. Everybody knew that's what they sometimes got, and there was no huge pretense that the press was free and could write exactly what the journalists wanted.

But with the USA, again, there is a huge elaborate pretense about a free press. Yet, if you read several papers or watch several channels, there is minimal variation on the underlying themes; Putin is a dictator and Russia is a dump, although very dangerous; Iran, North Korea and Bashar al Assad are just pure evil, and there are no nuances; Europeans are allright as long as they play along with the USA; "we don't talk about what really goes on in Saudi, Bahrain, Ukraine, etc", "China is a dictatorship, but we can't go to hard on them, because of the debt situation...."
If some population somewhere elects a leader or government that does something contradictory to the US agenda, then the election was a scam and the place is really a dictatorship....

And then repeat ad-nauseum that the US press is free. After all, there are so many papers to choose from...
If a person has hears this "freedom", and "free speech" talk from early childhood, and repeats and oath of loalty every day during childhood, obviously he's affected and takes certain "truths" for granted.

Apparently US children were taught that the the World Trade Centre was attacked because "they hate our freedom".
They probably couldn't care less what America does in its own country. The real reason for the attack was that Bin Laden resented US bases on "holy" soil in Saudi Arabia, and he had raised it several times before. But of course, it never occurred to ANY American press outlet to questioned why it needed bases in Saudi, on the other side of the globe, or discuss the fact that the whole population in Saudi, apart from the leaders resent the bases.
And all this, is assuming Bin Laden was definitely behind it. With a nation as untrustworthy as the USA, you can never be certain that anything it says is true.

If the USA was a person instead of a country, it would be a big bully that lashed out on anyone who dared to stand up against the bullying, or ignore the bully. It would be a person that totally lacked moral principles and whose word could never be trusted.