Notable excerpt from the article:
"And then I recalled the monstrous American invasion of Iraq. Perhaps half a million
dead. It’s one of the statistics for Rwanda’s dead. Certainly far more
than Srebrenica’s 9,000 dead. And I can tell you that Iraq’s half
million dead “creeped me out” rather a lot, not to mention the torture
and murders in the CIA’s interrogation centres in Afghanistan as well as
in Iraq. It also “creeped me out” to learn that the US president used
to send innocent prisoners off to be interrogated in... Assad’s Syria!
Yes, they were sent by Washington to be questioned in what Samantha now
calls Syria’s “Gulags”.
Funny old world. Samantha, God bless her, didn’t mention Gaza, where
quite a lot of Palestinian children have been killed by the Israelis.
Nor Yemen, where America’s head-chopping allies are now dissing the
Shiites and have killed almost 4,000 civilians. Nor the mass killings by
Isis in Mosul. Nor – most oddly of all – did Samantha mention 9/11.
Here, surely, was an international crime against humanity worthy of
mention in Samantha’s roll call of shame. 3,996 innocent dead. A
must-be, you’d think, for throwing at the Syrians and the Russkis and
the Iranians."
