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Monday, March 14, 2005 4:44 p.m. EST
Washington Post Editor Knocks U.S.
The United States should not lead the world, a top Washington Post editor told Red China's People's Daily.
In a lengthy interview with the government-controlled newspaper's Washington correspondent, Yong Tang, Post managing editor Philip Bennett said, "I don't think U.S. should be the leader of the world."
Bennett added: "I also think it is unhealthy to have one country as the leader of the world. People in other countries don't want to be led by foreign countries. They may want to have good relations with it or they may want to share with what is good in that country."
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Among Bennett's other anti-U.S. remarks:
The U.S. isn't really promoting democracy. "If you look around the world in strategically important places, is the U.S. actively engaged there promoting democracy or not? I don't think there is much evidence that promoting democracy is what the U.S. is doing. It is what it says it is doing."
The Bush administration is hiding the truth. "One of the jobs of our correspondents in Baghdad is to tell our readers what the Bush administration is trying to hide. Bush says democracy is advancing in Iraq, but our correspondents say the situation there is much more complex than that."
"The government of the U.S. is becoming much more secretive, much more hostile to the press in terms of giving us access to the information. So a lot of what we do here is to fight for access to the information that we think the public should have. That takes a lot of our energy and resources."
Sounding strangely like New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty, who, while covering up Stalin's deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians, wrote, "I have seen the future and it works," Bennett told Yong Tang, "When I went to China, I felt I was seeing into the future."
The Post doesn't call China, one of the world's most repressive dictatorships, what it is: a dictatorship. "Neither The Washington Post, nor the New York Times, nor any other big newspapers, refer to China today as a dictatorship regime. We don't use these words on the paper any more. Now we say China is a communist country only because it is a fact. China is ruled by the Communist party."
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