Standing Up to a Bully

Qureshi: Just the fact that a ``Gora``, or Gore Vidal in this case, says something against US policies does not mean that what he says is right. However, you present Vidal`s interview as if his views of themselves are sufficient to back your view that the US is wrong in going after Saddam Hussein.
As for your admiration of Saddam Hussein (which is obvious from the title of your article), I beg to differ: I think any man who litters his country with huge pictures of himself dressed up in all types of fancy clothes (as Saddam Hussein has done in Iraq) is a narcissitic little sob. Any man who claims who ``runs for elections`` without any opposition, without any open debate on his track record, as Saddam has done indicates the contempt in which he holds his own people. Any man who claims to have won elections with 99 percent of the people voting for him, as Saddam has done, is a damned liar. I wont get into the way in which he has murdered his own sons-in-law, or the thousands of lives that have been lost due to his invasion of Kuwait and of his earlier 10 year ``war of the incompetents`` with Iran.
I think you need to find some different heroes to worship than Saddam Hussein. Personally, I think he should be brought to justice like any common criminal.

Omar, a well-written article. I was in the US after Sept 11 for almost an entire year, and I would definitely agree with you about the US media. I was a student of journalism so I got to read/watch/observe a lot of the crap that was dished out post Sep 11. The worst part is, as you pointed out, that people genuinely believe that whatever their media reports is 100% factual. Even papers like the NY Times are very pro-government and unquestioning of the US foreign policy, but are held in very high regard by the general public.

bat:
EVERY issue becomes an India-Pakistan debate. I wrote an article on frikkin SHOES on chowk and THAT became an India-Pak debate. Give it up. No point in getting embroiled in it.

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The sorry state of the american media needs much more exposure and these kind of articles are just what we need..Unofrtunately most Americans remain ignorant because they dont know better than to trust their own newspapers...but can we blame them? Living in Canada, we luckily have more options as far as newspapers and channels are concerned, and its amazing how waspish, rightwing and biased some of these are.
It`s great to see people like Noam Chomsky, Robert Frisk, Peter Jennings of the ABC network and their likes, that try to undo the harm their counterparts have caused and voice a view very different to that of their fellow journalists. From Iraq and North Korea to Israel and Afghanistan, the US foreign policy is extremely partial and prejudiced.Amazingly even after 9/11 , antiAmericanism is on the rise and thus issues like their biased media have caught attention.
And how did this become a pakistani-indian debate??

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I am glad to see Pakistan abandon support of Taleban and Pakistanis getting fingerprinted and registered by the INS. It is time someone knocked senses into our neighbor next door.

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