A government inviting foreign armies to suppress non-violent opposition, and sentencing physicians to long prison terms for tending to the wounds of the injured? Yes, this must be some cartoonish hyperbole about the forces of evil pushing the limits of evildoing into territories previously closed to imagination!
…And yet this is what has been going on… not in Libya or Syria, not in Iran or North Korea, but in the tiny kingdom of Bahrain, home of the United States Fifth Fleet, a very excellent friend of the West and therefore a bastion of Western freedom in a region teeming with freedom-haters…
I don’t have to keep going with the whole litany of crimes against humanity being committed in Bahrain as we speak. What do we expect from Washington and other freedom-loving nations of the West? To turn their backs on a loyal friend, and “let the terrorists win”? After all, “our son-of-a-bitch” is always immeasurably preferable to “them,” against whom we go to wars, impose sanctions, etc. Everybody understands the needs to keep “the Western end up” wherever it is possible, especially in these troubled days. Everybody understands why Washington and other Western governments are timid on Bahrain.
But I have a large request for the hypocrites of the Western world. Please, talk about the perfectly legitimate strategic interests of America and the West, and all that these entail, but do shut up about those human rights and freedoms! This talk makes me sick, and whenever I hear it now, I have just this one word in response---
BAHRAIN!
…And yet this is what has been going on… not in Libya or Syria, not in Iran or North Korea, but in the tiny kingdom of Bahrain, home of the United States Fifth Fleet, a very excellent friend of the West and therefore a bastion of Western freedom in a region teeming with freedom-haters…
I don’t have to keep going with the whole litany of crimes against humanity being committed in Bahrain as we speak. What do we expect from Washington and other freedom-loving nations of the West? To turn their backs on a loyal friend, and “let the terrorists win”? After all, “our son-of-a-bitch” is always immeasurably preferable to “them,” against whom we go to wars, impose sanctions, etc. Everybody understands the needs to keep “the Western end up” wherever it is possible, especially in these troubled days. Everybody understands why Washington and other Western governments are timid on Bahrain.
But I have a large request for the hypocrites of the Western world. Please, talk about the perfectly legitimate strategic interests of America and the West, and all that these entail, but do shut up about those human rights and freedoms! This talk makes me sick, and whenever I hear it now, I have just this one word in response---
BAHRAIN!
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