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Made in America - just in your backyard

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posted Friday, 25 August 2006

Well, apart from losing credibility amongst the Arabs, the crocodile tears posture of America in investigating Israel’s use of cluster bombs in Lebanon smacks of rank hypocrisy to say the least.

The embarrassment of finding unexploded bombs in Lebanon with the proudly emblazoned “Made in America” label is just one muddle that America would require superhuman diplomacy to dig itself out of.

If you give a child a loaded gun and expect sensible usage, you’ll be dead before you think of ways of getting it back – the big morale of the story.

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