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I'M growing concerned by the virulent anti-Americanism displayed both by your letter writers and by your feature writers. On Thursday we had A B Robertson predicting Falluja will be similar to Lidice, and Joan McAlpine comparing US tactics to those used by the Nazis and the Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that you carried a report about Srebrenica: the Bosnian Serb government has now acknowledged that its forces killed more than 7000 Muslims there in 1995. The victims were men and boys who were rounded up, executed and buried in mass graves. Whatever the mistakes made by American forces in Iraq and however dreadful the consequences, they have never done anything on that scale, or with such deliberation, and it's offensive to make the comparison.See the full content of this document
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Concern About Virulence Against America
Last week, in a letter from Allan Mackenzie, it was suggested that we should stand up to bullies, and the bully he had in mind was America. I was reminded of a video I saw, shot in an Iraqi prison. It wasn't Abu Ghraib under the Americans, it was inside one of Saddam Hussein's prisons some years ago. The video showed about a dozen thin, naked men being thrown from a door into an enclosure, where there were half a dozen men in uniform, holding long batons.
As the men in uniform waded in with their...See the full content of this document
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