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Oil spill 'will shape how US thinks about environment'
What a superb piece of hyperbole. Add that to the continued reference to BP as British Petroleum and we Brits are on the same level as terrorists who fly planes into towers killing thousands of innocent citizens. Oh, didn't you know? BP deliberately destroyed its rig and sacrificed a lot of money and public image just to attack the American people and their ideals.
"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," he said in the Politico interview.
Actually, I think that the point that he is trying to make is fair enough. But 9/11 is becoming a modern-day Godwin, and it's very easy for the sensationalist press and the casual reader to ignore this. Certainly BBC's headline on the main pages "Oil spill is environment's 9/11" was misleading.*
*Yes, I know the BBC carries the same level and quality of reporting as a red-top tabloid these days.
What a superb piece of hyperbole. Add that to the continued reference to BP as British Petroleum and we Brits are on the same level as terrorists who fly planes into towers killing thousands of innocent citizens. Oh, didn't you know? BP deliberately destroyed its rig and sacrificed a lot of money and public image just to attack the American people and their ideals.
"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," he said in the Politico interview.
Actually, I think that the point that he is trying to make is fair enough. But 9/11 is becoming a modern-day Godwin, and it's very easy for the sensationalist press and the casual reader to ignore this. Certainly BBC's headline on the main pages "Oil spill is environment's 9/11" was misleading.*
*Yes, I know the BBC carries the same level and quality of reporting as a red-top tabloid these days.