Funny - Greece is in the second day of being rocked by rioting youths on the anniversary of the shooting death of a teenager there, with rioters smashing bank windows, overturning trash bins and setting them alight as they hurl rocks and fire crackers at riot police, and yet the NY Times has a page dedicated to the minute-by-minute events in Iran, but not Greece. That's called a double-standard. They're using human rights as a propaganda tool. Human rights abuses in some countries are given a pass, if they're US allies. You don't hear much about human rights abuses in places like Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan or Jordan, or even Iran under the Shah. Ah, but as soon as there's a government in one of those countries that doesn't get along with the US, suddenly people are pounding their chests and pulling out their hair over human rights there.
Of course, to say that human rights concerns are cynically-deployed propaganda tools, isn't to say that the concern about human rights is not itself justified and justifiable.
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