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Originally Posted by James
I think with the likes of Chomsky and Corbyn they believe, or want to believe, that the West, and America in particular, is the cause of all evil in the world, when it really isn't.
Really for people like Chomsky etc. it is all a tool for changing the politics of their own countries.
It's quite easy for them to turn a blind eye to a lot of bad stuff going on in parts of the world because events which don't have a western angle to them, are judged to be uninteresting to people here, and are largely under-reported.
IS came to our attention so much, and became impossible to ignore because of the terrible western hostage videos they put out.
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They are not saying that at all, in terms of power and influence they are big hitters however, what is imperative is that citizens are mindful that human rights are not compromised in the west.
Nobody turns a blind eye to other things, other areas are regularly highlighted as having terrible human rights records, is it enough to say 'Oh well, at least we're not as bad as
them' Whilst chipping away at our own?
They don't 'believe' or 'want to believe'... They see it happening, they know the history , what has been done that is being systematically undone.
It came to our attention because of the hostages? Is that ignoring the gulf war in the 90s ?... the millions who protested against action in 2004?
We aided in destabilisation, many turn a blind eye to that, Blair admits it but those who through some misguided patriotism can not.