Double Standards Rule the Roose in the Wake of the London Bombings

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
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1//The News International, Pakistan Sunday July 10, 2005-- Jamadi Us Sani 02, 1426 A.H.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/10-07-2005/world/w4.htm



DOUBLE STANDARDS RULE THE ROOST IN THE WAKE OF THE LONDON BOMBINGS

By Kaleem Omar



KARACHI: At 5.49 pm (British Summer Time) on Thursday, July 7, only nine hours after four bomb blasts in London killed at least 50 people and injured 700 others, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning the London attacks and expressing "outrage and indignation" at the "appalling terrorist attacks against the people of the United Kingdom that cost human life and caused injuries and immense human suffering."



All such attacks are to be condemned in the strongest possible terms, of course. But how is it that the UN Security Council has not to this day passed a resolution condemning the US bombing of Afghanistan in 2001 or the US bombing of Iraq in 2003, which killed thousands of innocent Afghan and Iraqi civilians, including women and children?



Were the lives of the 50 people killed in the London bomb blasts more valuable than the lives of the estimated 15,000 civilians killed in Afghanistan and the estimated 100,000 civilians killed in Iraq by US bombing and missile strikes?



The answer, of course, is, no, they were not. All lives are equally valuable, whether they are those of people in the UK, Afghanistan, Iraq or anywhere else. So why has the UN Security Council never passed a resolution expressing outrage and indignation at the appalling US attacks against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq?

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Note: this reads like an editorial but was found in the News section of the publication...

[Selatius]

1. Simple answer: The US sits on the Security Council

Any condemnation against the US over Iraq or Afghanistan is invariably going to be killed by a US veto.

[shance]

2. They were talking about this on Majority Report the other day.

Very good point that needs to be expressed more.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. As this imbalance of justice build up

Terror attack on US and UK just don't have our sympathy no more.
Its so sad to hear so many people in our country saying "They deserve it"
It is a lose lose suituation... a greater evil begets and make smaller evil all right.
It is inevitable that an attack on US will occur again.
It would be very sad to see people on the street celebrating when this happen. But that will be how it is, a reality of the world we live in today.
A great evil has been commited in the name of the US and UK people and until and unless that is properly address this world going into a shit house.