Tantamount

"Tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy." So Cardinal O'Brien of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh describes the impending increase in British aid to Pakistan. No change there, then. The more supported by the neocons a Middle Eastern or Islamic regime or movement is, the worse off are the Christians, who are not supposed to exist in the neocon view of the world, and who embody precisely the civilisation that neoconservatism defines itself by rejecting.

Therefore, compare the reserved Assyrian and Armenian seats in the Iranian Parliament, the Christian-majority provinces and the Christian festivals as public holidays in Syria, the Christian quota for the Palestinian Authority, the composition of the new governing coalition in Lebanon, and Iraq before 2003, with the plight of the Christians in NATO Turkey (a state founded on the bloody mass expulsion of Christians), in Israel (likewise), as envisaged by the neocon-backed Saudi proxies in Lebanon, as actualised in Iraq since 2003, in Mubarak's Egypt, in the neocon-created fake states of Bosnia and Kosovo, on the receiving end of neocon-backed Islamist terrorism from Chechnya and the surrounding area, and in Pakistan.