Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Terror Royalty

The headline on CNN.com’s story about the killing of Imad Mughniyeh read: “Death of a Terror King.” The story, like all the other news articles about his death, claims Mughniyeh was the mastermind behind many of the best-known attacks against U.S. interests in the Middle East of the last 25 years.

My question is, will CNN.com carry a similar headline about the death of George W. Bush or Donald Rumsfeld or Bill Clinton or William Cohen or Robert McNamara or any other U.S. “terror king” who still hasn’t drawn his or her last breath? (I could be wrong, but I think McNamara’s still around. I don’t recall reading a “Death of a Terror King” obituary on CNN.com, fondly remembering McNamara’s role in the U.S. atrocities in Vietnam.)

Surely, these Americans are far more deserving of this royal honor than Mughniyeh. The American “terror kings” are responsible for the brutal killing of millions around the world, while Mughniyeh can lay claim to only hundreds. 

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