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If I Was an Afghan I Too Might Have Attacked Robert Fisk
by John Hawkins
This one is a little old but it's a such a perfect example of the kooky thinking on the left that I couldn't pass it up. We have one Robert Fisk, a well known anti-American reporter from Britain. This guy is just a fountain of anti-American hatred. So anyway, Robert goes to Pakistan in December of 2001 and gets thrashed by a horde of Afghan refugees who are the very people he claims are morally superior to the United States. How bad was it?
"The more I bled, the more the crowd gathered and beat me with their fists. Pebbles and small stones began to bounce off my head and shoulders. How long, I remembered thinking, could this go on? My head was suddenly struck by stones on both sides at the same time -- not thrown stones but stones in the palms of men who were using them to try and crack my skull. Then a fist punched me in the face, splintering my glasses on my nose, another hand grabbed at the spare pair of spectacles round my neck and ripped the leather container from the cord."
Desperately Fisk fought back as he tried to get away and who could blame him?
"Then I turned on the man on my right, the one holding the bloody stone in his hand and I bashed my fist into his mouth."
Oh no! Fisk comes to the shocking realization that fighting back now makes him like those filthy Americans...
"I was crying and weeping and that the tears were cleaning my eyes of blood. What had I done, I kept asking myself? I had been punching and attacking Afghan refugees, the very people I had been writing about for so long, the very dispossessed, mutilated people whom my own country --among others -- was killing along, with the Taliban, just across the border. God spare me, I thought."
I know you're thinking, "what a weenie" but you haven't seen anything yet...
"Godd@mit, I said and tried to bang my fist on my side until I realised it was bleeding from a big gash on the wrist -- the mark of the tooth I had just knocked out of a man's jaw, a man who was truly innocent of any crime except that of being the victim of the world."
Remember the guy who was trying to split Fisk's head open like a coconut for no particular reason? Fisk thinks that guy is actually the victim here =)
"And -- I realised -- there were all the Afghan men and boys who had attacked me who should never have done so but whose brutality was entirely the product of others, of us.."
So there it is in a nutshell. The people who were trying to smash in Fisk's head? They were actually victims of the entire Western world. Are you a part of the Western world? Then maybe you should fly to Pakistan and apologize to those nice men (assuming they don't smash your skull in with a rock first)!
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