"We" are better than "them"

An excellent article by Anthony Lowenstein about Western media and government's two-faced labelling of foreign leaders. When our interests are secure, their atrocities, which our own governments commit on a greater scale to citizens of other nations, are excused . But when their usefulness expires or their actions threaten our interests (e.g. oil price, or idealistic government) they are condemned, quite rightly, as mad men, despots and butchers.

Why? Because of our implicit value judgements that "we" are better than "them".

A lazy post by me, but please read the article and you can make up your own mind.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/44618.html