Pravda on WOT - "old wine in a new bottle"

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The following article (link) is a reverse-spin on the CNN-americano spin, and is healthy reading for those here who like seeing through spin. All in all, i find the article more honest than anything i've read in today's papers. After your kneejerk responses, what is your feeling about this critique?


American policy seems to be in a quandary, and not just because US troops are bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the two Muslim countries that the US invaded and occupied after September 11, 2001.

President Bush, in his speech on November 6 at the National Endowment on Democracy in Washington, has talked of a 'new policy' which actually is 'old wine in a new bottle'. While on the ground, the US pushes its 'war on terror' largely through military might propped by a troika of military occupation and access to bases in the Middle East and Central Asia, uncritical support for Israel and protecting oil interests, the wrapping around this US strategy is 'democracy' in the hope that it might sell this time. But people in the Middle East can differentiate between posturing, which is what Mr Bush did yesterday, and policy, which is what Washington has done on the ground since 9/11.

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http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/386/11250_Waronterror.html