When Narratives Collide

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
April 13, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/446/when-narratives-collide

Excerpt:

The heroic Capt Richard Phillips is held captive for five days by deadly, mercenary pirates high on hallucinogenic Qat. President Obama refuses to order an immediate rescue, (see conservative combat journalist Jeff Emanuel's excellent piece about this), the Navy Seals nevertheless expertly rescue Capt. Phillips—and left-liberal British journalist, Johan Hari, immediately insists that we " are being lied to about the pirates."

Hari argues that the Somali pirates have been driven to criminal hostage-taking because America and Europe have polluted Somalian waters with radioactive waste, caught all the fish in their ocean, created a failed nation state–and thus, have forced the men to become pirates dependent upon the kindness of strangers' ransom money.

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