Politicians want calm, yet approve billions to ‘treat people overseas like rabid dogs’
The editorial board of The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh student paper, claimed this week that U.S. politicians are hypocrites for calling for calm after the attempted assassination of President Trump … because they still approve funds to treat people abroad “like rabid dogs.”
“It’s very easy to condemn any and all political violence when it happens here at home, especially when it leaves civilians dead or injured,” the editors state in their Wednesday editorial. “But in their grand statements of unity and their condemnations of violence in politics, our nation’s leaders often sneak in a footnote that clarifies that their cries for peace only extend to America’s borders.”
They ponder how President Obama can reconcile his condemnation of last Saturday’s political chaos in Pennsylvania with his drone “murders [of] hundreds of civilians” during the U.S.’s War on Terror.
The board also complains that President Biden said “there’s no place in America for political violence,” despite approving billions of dollars in aid to Israel that’s been used to eliminate “nearly 40,000 Palestinians and reduce half the homes in Gaza to rubble.”
The same day Biden made his remarks, the editors continue, Israel tried to take out Hamas’ Mohammed Deif and in the process allegedly killed 90 civilians.
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Not only do the editors not understand the difference between domestic electoral politics and actions taken while being in a state of war, they don’t grasp the concepts of freedom and peace:
“If life and peace are fair standards for the American people, they should be fair standards for the people of any country, no matter how far away. Our leaders are quick to reprehend the violence that might someday come knocking at their door but choose to ignore or proudly endorse the violence that decimates oppressed foreign nations.”
Within the region in question Israel is the only free country — and has wanted nothing but peace since its founding. Gazan Palestinians and their Arab state neighbors are not free, and many have sought the destruction of their Jewish neighbors since at least 1948.
This isn’t the first time The Pitt News editors have had an issue with logic and facts. In late 2021 they claimed Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted due to a “technicality” and “loopholes.” Six years before that, they opined that the fight against racism was of more import than the First Amendment.
Blasting critics of the University of Oklahoma’s decision to expel several fraternity members involved in a “racist chant,” The Pitt News wrote “If we construe the Constitution in this manner, we are authorizing and perpetuating a racist culture that trickles down to the university level, making an entire group feel unwelcome on their campus.”
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