can you feel my love buzz
Just as Ted Rall points out that extraordinary rendtion is really just another way to outsource jobs testicle-stomping, naked-man-stacking, red-blooded American men and women are perfectly capable of doing in secret detention centers here at home (or at least on our own military bases abroad), David Lindorff asks:
While tens and even hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathering in America is a story that can be buried on inside pages (as the N.Y. Times did in the case of the first big New York march against the Iraq War), or in many cases not covered at all (at least unless a few of them behave violently or react assertively to police provocation), a few thousand, or even a few hundred stylishly Western-clad young Lebanese protesting against America's enemy of the week, Syria, get full-bore coverage. When is the last time we've seen a U.S. protest on the cover of Time or Newsweek?
My own guess it's probably ten times more inexpensive. Halting a war or even forgiving massive foreign debt that cripples a country is time consuming and pricey, while demanding more equality for women or inclusion of a political party is much, much cheaper, and frankly more interesting. That, and I bet dousing foreign protestors with pepper spray can be done for like nickels and dimes on the dollar elsewhere, while here we've gotta deal with frivolous lawsuits and constitutional amendments. Let the mighty invisible hand of the market dictate where and when democracy flourishes. Anywho, even though consumers stateside say they like it and want more, it's pretty obvious they prefer other brands.
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