22,
May 2005 Sent to NYT in
response to Friedman's op-ed piece:
Thomas
Friedman's op-ed piece (18, May) offers a qualified condemnation of U.S.
interrogators for desecration of the Koran but reserves
most of his column castigating Muslim nations for their silence
in the mayhem caused by suicide bombers. In the interest of fairness and
balance, Friedman and other writers must share the blame for their failure to
challenge the US Administration in the events leading up to
the disastrous and immoral war in Iraq and their deafening
silence of the inhumane treatment of the Palestinians. The seething rage of
people whose country has occupied, its people killed, wounded and tortured, and
its resources stolen, has produced a predictable response.
Nothing will change until media pundits like Friedman and others inoculate
themselves with mega doses of a truth serum and cease serving as apologists for
the US government.
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