The theme of the M&G for the last fortnight has been: “Of course it was horrid to kill all those Americans but …”
In terms of editorial integrity, this fits snugly with your snivelling apologies for giving the Democratic Alliance too much attention.
So, the Americans have warts; they have prosecuted unseemly policies and promoted homicidal monsters at times.
Worse, they are far too rich and democratic, and they will tiresomely insist on due process and the rule of law.
But if not for their interventions on behalf of a cowering humanity more of my extended family would have ended up as Nazi soap cakes and you, Mr Editor, would be seeing out time in a Chinese or Russian gulag instead of unleashing this mewling horsepiss on us.
When do the M&G and its whinging correspondents actually get real about core values and who stands for and against them?
When do they recognise that the Taliban, the Pakistani generals and the Syrian Ba’athists misuse Islam to keep undemocratic tyrannies in being just as the Nats used Afrikanerdom. The M&G invents the same complexity around these issues that Chamberlain in Europe and so many of the whites in apartheid South Africa did to justify craven and eventually disastrous positions. Robin Carlisle, Trovato
Charlotte Raven’s commentary “A bully with a bloody nose is still a bully” is a cynical and callous piece of drivel. Two airliners crash into a building filled with thousands of people, erupting into enormous fireballs which incinerate thousands, causing the building to collapse and crush thousands more. She calls it a bloody nose. What social type reacts to a tragedy like this with such crass indifference?
To demonstrate solidarity with the US in this time in no way implies support for the Bush government’s war measures. Eric Goodwin