Posted on 09/10/2002 12:21:51 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Blame America First. The 9-11 attacks were our own fault, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite contended on Monday's Larry King Live on CNN, because we hog so much of the world's wealth while many are destitute.
Cronkite said he believes "very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened," before he asserted that anti-U.S. terrorism is caused by "this great division between the rich and the poor in the world." The people of the world "who don't have adequate housing, don't have adequate hospitalization, don't have adequate medical care, don't have adequate education," Cronkite warned, "are not going to live forever in the shadow of the riches that we display constantly." Walter Cronkite attributed terrorism to U.S. policy and world poverty: "We are suffering from a revolution of the...have-nots against the...haves and that's us."
Applying liberal logic which seeks to blame the U.S. for all the world's ills, Cronkite declared: "We are suffering from a revolution of the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that's us."
In fact, the al Qaeda terrorists were hardly poor and the vast majority of the world's poor do not support terrorism. The common elements amongst those targeting the U.S. is Islamic extremism and nation's without respect for individual liberty.
Cronkite's liberal ranting came about 45 minutes into the live September 9 interview tied to the 9-11 anniversary.
King prompted Cronkite by wondering about "foreign policy's affect on what might have caused 9-11?"
That set off Cronkite: "Yes, I think very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened." King interjected: "Doesn't excuse it." But Cronkite plowed forward without acknowledging King's caveat, so he presumably did not agree with it: "We have been warned by other terrorist attacks elsewhere of the dislike for us and the intensity of organization to express that dislike in various terrorist acts around the country -- the two embassies that were blown up in Africa, the Destroyer Cole, for instance, episode, and that sort of thing. "It should be apparent to us, it should have been apparent to us a long time ago and it certainly should be apparent now -- it should be, for goodness sakes understood now, but it is not, that the problem is this great division between the rich and the poor in the world. We represent the rich. Each of our citizens is not rich, of course, but as a country we are exceedingly rich. As a country, all of these, most of these other nations of Africa, Asia and South America and Central America are very, very poor. The people in those countries who don't have adequate housing, don't have adequate hospitalization, don't have adequate medical care, don't have adequate education, they are not going to live forever in the shadow of the riches that we display constantly in our movies, in our travels around the world, in our airlines, in our shipping. "They're not going to put up with that forever. This is a revolution in effect around the world. A revolution is in place today. We are suffering from a revolution of the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that's us."
Yes, it's all our fault and Osama bin Laden is just trying to help the world's downtrodden improve themselves.
Well, not quite exactly that. The POOR in those countries are kept poor because their leadership has/is stealing/keeping for themselves virtually all the wealth pumped into their countries from the purchase of oil by "Western" countries. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, etc. are literally awash with oil, but the proceeds are ending up in numbered Swiss bank accounts to the credit of the Ibn Saud family, the Saddam Hussein family, Gadaffi, etc., etc. IOW, they are kept poor by their leaders.
Osama Bin Laden came from a wealthy family worth BILLIONS!
Cronkite is an IDIOT!
Saudi Arabia is FAR from poor and that is where most of the Al Qaeda terrorists were from.
Cronkite is an IDIOT!!!
Regards,
You see, there was a time, back before talk radio, the Internet and Free Republic, that even conservatism_IS_compassion hadn't seen through the liberal spin inherent in journalism. When they called themselves "objective" with their mighty microphones, most all of us were gulled into assuming that they meant it!The beginning of the end was the Carter era, when Accuracy In Media (Reed Irvine) convinced me of "bias in the media." I soon got bored with the endless tales of the same old same-old, and struggled to answer the obvious question, why is the media biased? It took years--nay, decades--to begin to clear my head of the marketing (i.e., propaganda) of journalism.
But at least at his age Red Wally can't last too much longer. ;}
Perhaps it is the WILD unabandoned SEX he and Helen Thomas are having? I dunno..... :o)
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