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Subject: Re: American troops in Turkey, S. Korea, Germany,.....
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 13:22:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 13:22:03 1986
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> Do you suppose we would ever see these headlines?
>  
> "AMERICAN TROOPS IN TURKEY, SOVIETS PROTEST AMERICAN INTERVENTION"
> 
> Of course not.
> And yet, just as the American media seem contented with a totally
> one-sided view of "terrorism" which equates it with the killing
> of *American* civilians by our "enemies", so they simply accept
> and parrot the rationale that Soviet or Cuban troops invited to
> any other country gives a justification for invasion or military
> intervention.  This, once again, is sheer hypocrisy and blatantly
> nationalistic bias.  If the Soviets published rumors of Soviet
> action against Turkey because of American troops there, the
> American media would be whipped into a frenzy.  Yet the same media
> simply echos Eliot Abrams as he charges that Cuban troops in
> Nicaragua are grounds for invasion.
>  
> This is not to say that I am voicing support for either American
> troops in Honduras or Cuban troops in Nicaragua.  Indeed one of
> the key provisions of the Contadora agreement called for the
> withdrawal of *all* foreign troops from Central America.
> But I cannot see how we can say that a repressive military 
> dictatorship in Turkey has the right to ask American troops
> to  be stationed there, while Nicaragua or any other country
> has no right to ask other nation's troops to be stationed in
> their own country. What is good for the goose is good for the
> gander.
>  

Mr. Sevener: as usual, your ignorance of current events is astounding.
Turkey had an election a little while back.  While the election process
wasn't as democratic as the U.S. or Western Europe, by comparision
with the elections in Hungary (which you have expressed such enthusiam
for) and the elections in Nicaragua, Turkey's election was quite democratic.

> This is another way in which American media present a one-sided
> "America can do anything we want" view of the world.
> This view is both unquestioned and unchallenged in the mainstream
> media.
> It goes without saying that most Americans come to accept the
> same unquestioned assumption coming at them from all sides of
> the American media.
>  
>         tim sevener    whuxn!orb

American mass media always struck me as bending over backwards to justify
the Soviet side of things.  But even this isn't enough for you -- you
want them to be completely supportive of all Soviet moves, no matter
how evil.  The double standard you constantly refer to does exist --
but you seem to want to replace it with a different double standard.