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Henryk M. Broder

22.09.2007   12:43   +Feedback

Die nutzlosen Idioten

We have wound up with a society, not of useful idiots, but of useless ones. We have so badly confused ourselves that the people who most despise America regard themselves as our greatest patriots. They call America an imperialistic power even though we haven’t claimed an acre of foreign turf in my lifetime. They insist that we only go to war over oil, although we have made no move to confiscate the oil fields in Kuwait or Iraq. While condemning anything and everything that George W. Bush has done in the past six years, accusing him of trampling on our civil rights without being able to point to a single one, and equating him with Hitler, they sing the praises of such dictators as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez…
the founding father of the global peace movement is a 77-year-old Norwegian professor named Johan Galtung, who, in 1959, established the International Peace Research Institute. If that sounds as much like the name of a Communist front group to you as it does to me, it shouldn’t surprise you that Galtung calls America a “killer country” that indulges in “neo-fascist state terrorism.” On the other hand, he’s not always such a big grouch. Back in the 1970s, he wrote glowingly about Mao Tse-tung’s China, and even as he approaches the age of 80, he’s still shooting from the hip. Not too long ago, he called for the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Committee in Iraq, not to address the atrocities of Saddam Hussein and his Baathist butchers, but, predictably, those he attributes to the U.S.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2007/09/21/peace_is_sometimes_a_four-letter_word

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