Middle East Eye
Pretend, for a moment, that you’re Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member Mary Anastasia O’Grady. Now pretend that the United States has just bombed, say, Havana.
Your column on the episode might go something like this: “Though it should have thanked Donald Trump for the favour, the tyrannical, despotic Cuban regime once again displayed its hatred of democracy by condemning the bombing of Cuba’s capital city.
“Democrats in the US were quick to show their communist colours by opposing the strike, which was also denounced by Hamas in Gaza and assorted Islamic State cells. Iranian proxies in 194 countries threatened retaliation on behalf of the Cuban-Venezuelan-Islamic-narco-jihad terror network. A highly knowledgeable intelligence source, meanwhile, told me that natives of the Pacific Island of Bora Bora were seen waving flags of Fidel Castro and Hassan Nasrallah and distributing cookies in the shape of Ayatollah Khomeini.”
To be sure, O’Grady has rarely met a right-wing pro-imperialist zealot that she didn’t like. Anyone not fully meeting those qualifications is generally assigned to the category of enemy conspirator.
O’Grady’s January article on Trump’s assassination-by-drone strike of Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, did not disappoint. Headlined “Soleimani’s Latin America Terror”, the article asserts that Trump “did Latin America a big favour” by eliminating the Iranian “hero of hemispheric criminality”. As proof of his criminal heroism, “Cuba’s military dictatorship quickly condemned the U.S. action”.
Never mind that said US action was, you know, illegal and a war crime. READ MORE AT MIDDLE EAST EYE.
