Call That Humiliation?
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The war of humiliation
Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk
04/02/07
Our Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it’s definitely not the war on terror. It’s the war of humiliation. The humiliation of Britain, the humiliation of Tony Blair, of the British military, of George Bush and the whole Iraqi shooting match. And the master of humiliation — even if Tony Blair doesn’t realise it — is Iran, a nation which feels itself forever humiliated by the West. Oh how pleased the Iranians must have been to hear Messers Blair and Bush shout for the ‘immediate’ release of the luckless 15 — this Blair-Bush insistence has assuredly locked them up for weeks — because it is a demand that can be so easily ignored. And will be...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2412764.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terry+Jones
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk
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The war of humiliation
Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk
04/02/07
Our Marines are hostages. Two more were shown on Iranian TV. Petrol bombs burst behind the walls of the British embassy in Tehran. But it’s definitely not the war on terror. It’s the war of humiliation. The humiliation of Britain, the humiliation of Tony Blair, of the British military, of George Bush and the whole Iraqi shooting match. And the master of humiliation — even if Tony Blair doesn’t realise it — is Iran, a nation which feels itself forever humiliated by the West. Oh how pleased the Iranians must have been to hear Messers Blair and Bush shout for the ‘immediate’ release of the luckless 15 — this Blair-Bush insistence has assuredly locked them up for weeks — because it is a demand that can be so easily ignored. And will be...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2412764.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terry+Jones
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk
rudkla - 1. Apr, 09:08
