Time once again to play--Selective Outrage!

[eridani]

The fun and timeless game that will make you forget all about the global elite-sponsored race to the bottom! Now remember boyzngirlz, don't start slobbering until Dr. Pavlov points at the Enemy du Jour and rings the bell!

Mr. Peabody, set the Wayback Machine for-- 1979!

Pol Pot had slaughtered millions of Cambodians to widespread condemnation, while at the same time Indonesia was performing a similar slaughter in East Timor to the sound of..........crickets. They even got large increases in military aid from the US. Then, Vietnam invaded Cambodia retaliating for border incursions, and deposed Pol Pot. Now, turn on a dime, kidz, because Pol Pot then became our noble ally.

http://www.irc-online.org/fpif/commentary/2003/0301iraq_body.html

When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in early 1979 and overthrew that genocidal regime, the United States denounced the Vietnamese as aggressors and successfully led international efforts to impose sanctions on Vietnam. For more than a decade, both Democratic and Republican administrations insisted that the Khmer Rouge thugs, whose control had been reduced to remote jungle hideouts near the Thai border, were the sole legitimate rulers of Cambodia and blocked the recognition of the Vietnamese-installed government. The reason, according to U.S. officials, was that no matter how repressive a regime may be, it does not give another country the right to invade that country, topple its government, and install one of its own choosing.

Wow! Really!?!?!

Mr. Peabody--1996, please.

OUr ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, formerly of UNOCAL oil and ambassador to Afghanistan, was writing op eds defending the Taliban.

http://www.counterpunch.org/issam04172003.html

Khalilzad's attitude to the Taliban seems to have correlated well with UNOCAL's efforts to build the pipeline. At the time, he defended the Taliban in an opinion published in The Washington Post. "The Taliban do not practice the anti-U.S. style of fundamentalism practiced by Iran," he wrote in 1996. "We should...be willing to offer recognition and humanitarian assistance and to promote international economic reconstruction. It is time for the United States to re-engage," he concluded.

Hop in and fast forward to 1998--

Turn on a dime again, kidz. Time to start with the crocodile tears for all the women in burkhas now that we want to bomb the shit out of them.

Easy and fun! And the brainwipes hardly hurt at all, do they?

[bluerum]

1. When you don't have your own moral compass, and you choose to

"follow the leader", you will often find yourself running in circles.

I remember reading some job recruiting literature when I was looking for a job after graduating from college. It said something along the lines of - "If you don't know what you want to do with your life, there are plenty of people willing to tell you what you to do."

The problem is, when you let people tell you what to do, you usually ends up serving their interests at your expense.

on edit: edit last sentence.