Reply #43: If the shoe fits

[Comadreja]

Parenti's statement points out a US pattern of enabling dictators, oiligarchs and oligarchs the world over to remain in power for their own selfish, corporate reasons. In the case of Palestine, it is very clear who the oppressors and oppressed are. I believe that the oppression of the Palestinians gives US arms and police industry a demented laboratory to test equipment and methods of crushing resistance. The US has steadfastly refused to let the UN take over this festering abscess of a problem, because denying justice and crushing the resulting outrage is what US foreign policy is all about. Justice, administered by the UN, is the only balsaam in Gilead that will begin the healing. As the bombings so vividly illustrate, denying justice will just spread and deepen the infection until the entire body succombs to gangrene. This may include us, since we have chained ourselves so inextricably to the diseased, festering body.