Posted 4/02/2004 07:31:00 PM by Douglas

Lileks offers up some first-rate fisking of Kerry's MTV interview. MTV has about as much involvement in the political process as PBS does in selecting the next American Idol.

We stopped pretending we would ratify Kyoto. We only spent $15 billion on AIDS in Africa. We did not take dictation from Paris. If we had done these things, it would minimize the world’s anger.

Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries?

Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women’s rights? Angry at Russia for corrupt elections? Is the world angry at China for threatening Taiwan, or angry at France for joining the Chinese in joint military exercises that threatened the island on the eve of an election? Is the world angry at Zimbabwe for stealing land and starving people? Is the world angry at Pakistan for selling nuclear secrets? Is the world angry at Libya for having an NBC program?

Is the world angry at the thugs of Fallujah?

Is the world angry at anyone besides America and Israel?

So. . . America is the only country that's doing anything about anything, yet the entire world is mad at us? I know that's not the point, but they can't have it both ways. Even the neo-cons and their sycophants can't say we went to Iraq to enforce UN Resolution 1441 and claim that the world community didn't approve.