Nick Kristof, the left-neoliberal NYT columnist who is overrated, an example of the Peter Principle in mainstream media in the inside-the-Beltway to Acela Corridor world, etc., etc., laments Aung San Suu Kyi's Burma having blood on its hands; in retweeting Frances Townsend, he's referring to attacks on Rohingya Muslims, which, for anybody claiming Buddhism is a religion of peace, have been done by the Buddhist 969 Movement and other very non-peaceful Buddhists. I've written about them before.
Hey, Nick, LOTS of Nobel Piss Prize (as we call it here) winners have dirty hands:
2015: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (coddling Charles Taylor)
2009: Dear Leader (and his later drones, al-Awlaki, etc.)
2002: Jimmy Carter (the Carter Doctrine & Middle East wars)
1994: Arafat, Rabin, Peres (kabuki theater on both sides)
1994: Arafat, Rabin, Peres (kabuki theater on both sides)
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma and its current problems
1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces (long history of rapes)
1983: Lech Walesa (possible spy for Communist Poland's secret police)
1983: Lech Walesa (possible spy for Communist Poland's secret police)
1979: Mother Teresa (wanting women to stay poor, anti-birth control)
1978: Sadat (thuggish at home) and Begin (1940s terrorist)
1973: Henry Kissenger and Le Duc Tho (a face-save vs. spinning the war out; heither was peaceful)
1973: Henry Kissenger and Le Duc Tho (a face-save vs. spinning the war out; heither was peaceful)
1945: Cordell Hull (did nothing about the pre-war anti-Semites in State Dept. who blocked Jewish refugees from Europe)
1937: Lord Cecil (Allies kept Germany blockaded after WWI; blockade itself was illegal under international law)
1919: Woodrow Wilson (racist)
1906: Teddy Roosevelt (warmonger, racist-lite).
That took me all of five minutes.
I'm sure part of the problem is that Kristof believes the BS about Buddhism being a religion of peace, as well as believing the BS about Nobel Piss Prize winners.
That took me all of five minutes.
I'm sure part of the problem is that Kristof believes the BS about Buddhism being a religion of peace, as well as believing the BS about Nobel Piss Prize winners.
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