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| Foreign press sez we're to blame... | |
| 2001-09-18 | |
Unbeknownst to me, a lowly American reporter, the world press is in a lather about last week's terrorist attack on New York and Washington. All across the world, credible newspapers and columnists are unleashing a second attack on America, claiming that we are to blame for world terrorism and, for that matter, all the other problems in the world today. From almost the second I was introduced, other members of the panel went on the attack, putting me in the difficult position of having to defend decades' worth of American foreign policy rather than giving me a chance to explain what my country is going through right now.
Another journalist, from an Arabic paper in Egypt, made it clear that he thought we deserved it. "It is your CIA and your FBI that caused this attack," he said. He even went so far as to claim that the American government is trying to foment "anti-Islamic" sentiment by releasing the names of the hijackers. "They released these names because they are Arabic-sounding," he argued. "Yet they have arrested no one!" I tried to point out that there was no one to arrest—they died on the planes, remember?—but the host shifted us to another topic. | |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |