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The burning of the American and British flags (stepping on the Israeli) and the image of Mohammed bin Salman in Gaza in protest of the announcement of Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist regime- Desember 2017 العربية: حرق علم الولايات المتحدة وبريطانيا وصورة محمد بن سلمان في غزة احتجاجا على إعلان القدس عاصمة للنظام الصهيوني من قبل الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب- ديسمبر 2017. فارسی: آتش زدن پرچم آمریکا و انگلیس و تصویر محمد بن سلمان در غزه در اعتراض به اعلام قدس به عنوان پای�
A WaPo Editor Floats U.N.-Sponsored ‘Disarmament’ for American Racists David Harsanyi
The other day, Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor at the
Washington Post, one of the largest and most prestigious newspapers in the world, reasoned that “if America were another country, we would be talking about how post-Civil War America is still in desperate need of a U.N.-sponsored Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) program for white supremacists and segregationists.”
Well, perhaps “reasoned” is an overstatement. The idea, of course, is as preposterous as it is juvenile, but more seriously, it betrays a corrosive illiberalism and warped understanding of American life that’s infected so much of the Left these days.
Washington Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah tells Day 6 host Brent Bambury the differing response between Wednesday's events at the Capitol, and the police response to Black Lives Matter protests last year, shouldn't come as a surprise.
Senior advisor to the president, Jared Kushner, during a recent trip to Iraq. (Photo: Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro/Department of Defense/Flickr)
There have been plenty of stupid comments in the mainstream U.S. media since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Many have been along the lines of, “We expect this kind of political violence in the Mideast, or in a banana republic not in our own democratic America.”
Such remarks betray a limited understanding of both the historic U.S. role overseas, and of America’s own history. Let’s start with a somewhat obscure but still revealing example, from Israel/Palestine. In 2006, the George W. Bush administration pressed the Palestinian Authority to hold new elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Jerome Slater (whose new book, “Mythologies Without End”, is an indispensable guide to truths in the Mideast), explains that Bush’s advisers assumed that “the PA would easily win.” But Hamas
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