Dismantle this....
Regarding the incessant media frenzy on the 'failed' terror bombings in London: I don't see how some hundred-odd dead and wounded can be written off as a 'failed' attack, yet every television and mainstream newspaper story dealing with the issue refers to it as a 'failed' attack.
On the ABC television news program, Nightline, the other night there was an interview with a Chechen terrorist leader in which he criticized Russia for the murders of 40,000 Chechen children and the mutilations of thousands of others. The man, Shamil Basayev, said that the Russian military were the real terrorists.
Now, when the Russian government issued a terse statement to the White House and to Nightline, the White House responded by saying that the producers at Nightline enjoy the freedom of speech that they are entitled to in the United States. Quite a slap in the face, considering Russia's been after the same Osama Bin-Laden we're after since the mid-70's (when our own government was funding al-Queda and furnishing them with weapons, just to fight the spectre of Communism).
I'm pretty sure that if the tables were turned and a popular Russian television newscast endorsed harsh criticism of the United States, that the White House would react pretty violently. Hell, Bush might even add Russia to the 'Axis of Evil' and equate Russia with terror the same way he did to Iraq.
Sure, sure, ABC can enjoy freedom of speech but what about all the artists right here in America who have been beaten, arrested, and had their art confiscated and destroyed simply for criticising the Iraq War? Where's their freedom of speech?
On the ABC television news program, Nightline, the other night there was an interview with a Chechen terrorist leader in which he criticized Russia for the murders of 40,000 Chechen children and the mutilations of thousands of others. The man, Shamil Basayev, said that the Russian military were the real terrorists.
Now, when the Russian government issued a terse statement to the White House and to Nightline, the White House responded by saying that the producers at Nightline enjoy the freedom of speech that they are entitled to in the United States. Quite a slap in the face, considering Russia's been after the same Osama Bin-Laden we're after since the mid-70's (when our own government was funding al-Queda and furnishing them with weapons, just to fight the spectre of Communism).
I'm pretty sure that if the tables were turned and a popular Russian television newscast endorsed harsh criticism of the United States, that the White House would react pretty violently. Hell, Bush might even add Russia to the 'Axis of Evil' and equate Russia with terror the same way he did to Iraq.
Sure, sure, ABC can enjoy freedom of speech but what about all the artists right here in America who have been beaten, arrested, and had their art confiscated and destroyed simply for criticising the Iraq War? Where's their freedom of speech?