I realize that it is absolute heresy not to jump on the bandwagon of all the people who are embarrassed that George W. Bush is our president, but just to compare:

Are the French at all embarrassed about selling Saddam Hussein nuclear reactors?

Are the Russians at all embarrassed about selling nuclear material to Iran while they promise to destroy Israel?

Are the Germans at all embarrassed about circumventing the Iraqi Oil for Food program, and supporting Saddam while he thumbed his nose at the UN?

Are the Saudis at all embarrassed about how much money they make on oil and how little they spend to help their fellow Arabs in need? Meanwhile in Dubai they are building in door ski slopes in the middle of the desert.

Is the UN at all embarrassed at how utterly ineffective they have been to stop genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, nuclear armament in North Korea, Iran or Iraq, state sponsored anti Semitism throughout the Middle East or absolute holocaust incitement in Iran? Are they at all embarrassed about their grossly disproportionate rate of condemnations against Israel, turning a blind eye to every thing from murder and misogyny to slavery in the rest of the world?

Why are we embarrassed before countries that have repeatedly proven themselves racist, anti-Semitic and morally bankrupt in their foreign affairs?

Terrorist activity is down significantly worldwide while Americans under ‘W’ have dealt terrorist networks their worst setback in decades.

Why are we embarrassed by that?

Henry Oliner

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