Spot the difference between these two:
‘President Barack Obama has hailed the end of US combat operations in Iraq, saying his country has paid “a huge price” to “put Iraq’s future in its people’s hands”.
…He said he had been “awed” by the sacrifice of the US military.’ [1]
‘Branding the attack on two couples, including a pregnant woman, as “senseless slaughter,” Mr Obama warned about “extremists and rejectionists who, rather than seeking peace, are going to be seeking destruction.”’ [2]
So the Iraq war, that has caused thousands of violent deaths, isn’t ‘senseless slaughter’? So the murder of nine Turkish activists on an aid ship bound for Gaza isn’t ‘senseless slaughter’?
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11147300
[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7976104/Barack-Obama-senseless-slaughter-will-not-thwart-peace-talks.html