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[Brad DeLong]

>  > Does that apply to Iraq and the former Yugoslavia too?
>
>One thing that really gets to me is the huge disparity between
>world-wide reactions to the disasters. It is, I suppose, a combination
>of many factors, including blatant racism, sycophancy (is that a word?)
>and convenience (it is *very* convenient to only consider *western*
>civilian deaths as tragic, any other civilian deaths are obviously
>caused by their dictator/terrorist-friendly/drug-running leaders). I
>guess it is also a monumental challenge for a person to have to perceive
>of the USA (to someone apolitical) as not the father-figure, good
>samaritan of the world, but as a war-mongering, self-serving state
>willing and able to kill innocents at the drop of a hat...

By which point a person appears to have become an unwitting apologist 
for the butchers of Srebrenica.

You may think of NATO policy in the Balkans as stupid, 
counterproductive, and wrong. But it did not arise out of an 
unwillingness to consider non-western civiilan deaths as tragic. It 
arose out of taking the deaths of Bosnian Muslim civilians very 
seriously indeed...

Brad DeLong