...Robert F. Kennedy was murdered on the first anniversary of Six Day War. In his pocket, Sirhan Sirhan was carrying a newspaper article describing RFK as a Vietnam dove and a Middle East hawk. But Lyndon Johnson insisted that he did not "know the reason for the attack on Senator Kennedy.

A "top official" told reporters on June 7, 1968:

We cannot permit a wave of anti-Arab sentiment among the American public at a time when we are trying to restore good relations with friends in the Arab world.

How did those friends respond? NYT reported on June 7: "Initial Arab reaction today deplored the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, but several newspaper editorials here asserted that the crime could not be isolated from United States policy in the Middle East."

Sounds familiar? It should. The same type of editorials were written after 9/11. And why not? Those editorials were not a product of a free press but of government mouthpieces. Arab governments dared blame the victim and discovered that they not only can get away with murder but that Foggy Bottom is there ever ready to help them do so. Indeed, together they've worked to convince the world that the fact that Arabs kill more and more Americans is proof positive of greater and greater American (not Arab) mendacity...