Yesterday morning we expressed our concern about how Bush public diplomacy chief Karen Hughes was selling out Israel in a desperate effort to get Malaysians to hate the US a little less:
Public diplomacy: apologizing for defending civilization in the futile hope of pathetically currying favor with people who end up hating us anyway… the United States is placing pressure on Israel in the hopes of winning over the Malaysian government… we suggest again, there might be other problems in the US-Muslim relationship than “US support for Israel”.
Today, parts of Malaysia’s state-controlled print media announced with the journalistic equivalent of a straight that Hezbollah’s not to blame for the start of this war. You’d think that being the first party to commit an act of war makes you blameworthy for starting that war, but apparently not so. We don’t want to be overdramatic: but we don’t think that these are people that can have their hatreds reasoned away from them.
