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From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
> I think the better way to phrase it is whether the US would get more
> sympathy if it had not itself bombed so many other countries. Which
of
> course is true. If this attack had been on Sweden, I doubt anyone
would
> treat this even rhetorically as anything other than a cowardly mass
murder -
> as the murder of Olaf Palme many years ago was.
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Would that the United States have as innocuous a "foreign" policy as
Sweden! Precisely the debate I've been having with one of my former
schoolmates who's now doing sweeps for airborne chemical weapons in DC
with his College Park based reserve unit.
Ian