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[‘Tavis Smiley’] Jeremy Scahill on cheering Obama getting Osama: Bloodthirstiness is the wrong vibe — jumping up and down, chanting “USA, USA!” — Upwards of a million people have been killed in Iraq alone!

From: PBS

Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill
May 2, 2011

TRANSCRIPT

Tavis: For more on the death of Osama bin Laden tonight I’m joined in New York by Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for “The Nation” and author of the best-selling exposé on Blackwater. […]

Tavis: Does that mean that you had your stomach turned by all the cheering and jubilation outside the White House?

Scahill: Well, I think that quite frankly it’s idiotic to treat these kinds of international events like sporting events, like it’s the World Cup that we’re cheering for here. I think in a way it really is insulting to those who’ve lost loved ones in these wars and who lost loved ones on 9/11, to trivialize it by jumping up and down like that. […]

Well, I think that it sends a message that we are a culture that somehow is celebrating death and targeted execution, and haven’t even thought about all of the losses that have come with this, particularly in the case of Iraq, where upwards of a million people have been killed.

I also think it gives an impression of sort of bloodthirstiness that I think is the wrong vibe to be pushing right now in the world. I think that we need to do everything we can to try to reach out to the Muslim world, to try to say that we have a lot more in common than we have that divides us, and I think that this kind of jumping up and down, chanting “USA, USA,” sends a message of almost sort of blood lust. I think we need to be really careful about that.

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  1. Journalism R Spells

    How can anyone believe what the bloodthirsty nations do not want to give their bloodthirsty populations “trophy photos”, or cares for Muslim sensibilities or provoke the phantom power into deadly actions against the US?

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