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Toronto Star: Your Daily Dose of Twisted Moral Equivalence

I can agree to disagree on the need for a UN probe of Israeli, US and UK drone strikes. But this Toronto Star staff-ed’s lede is really warped. How would Americans feel if another country…

Pesach Benson
January 29, 2013
12:00 am

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I can agree to disagree on the need for a UN probe of Israeli, US and UK drone strikes. But this Toronto Star staff-ed’s lede is really warped.

How would Americans feel if another country launched a drone strike in the streets of New York City to kill an enemy? It’s a far-fetched notion, to be sure.

Far fetched?

Al-Qaida already used manned aerial vehicles over the streets of, uh, New York City to take out a pair of skyscrapers. We call it 9/11.

How would the Toronto Star feel if terrorists used airplanes as missiles in the streets of Toronto?

(image via YouTube/MysticalGrooveWTC)

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Tags: 9/11, drones, moral equivalence, Toronto Star, UN, WTC

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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