I am even more
assured that we will not hear about Afghanistan (with the exception of their
lunatic of a President Hamid Karzai) or Libya. In particular from the hawkish
John McCain, Lindsey Graham and more exacting, from the lips of President
Obama. Especially now with the feces
hitting the proverbial Ukrainian fan.
America is really in
a leadership, or even more basically, hand-holding vacuum. See real leaders, or better yet statesmen can
walk the walk while holding the hands of folks who require baby steps to make
any progress on anything. In Iraq for example, it is coming to pieces, it may
be three or even four states by time all the smoke clears. Last year alone,
more than 10,000 people died, and most likely many more. And just in the first
month of 2014 alone, more than 1000 Iraqis were killed in car and suicide
bombings, most of which were civilians.
If we were hearing
about Iraq, we would be reminded of how we meddle into affairs that were not
ours, on a completely other side of the globe and which we leave in shabbles. If
Obama or the media mentioned Iraq, they would have to show how the al Qaeda
group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has taken over the region, a
region were al Qaeda never existed be for the U.S. Invasion and occupation of
Iraq. Or how refugees from the Western part of Iraq and in the Anbar provinceare making fast motion to become refugees in Jordan. Or even worse, how the man
we installed as Prime Minister (Nouri al-Maliki) has provided no service to
Sunnis, made them focus of attacks, and used government troops to squash any
open and “democratic” protest against his government. Now unbelievably, Sunni
side with ISIS against another U.S. backed regime. And Libya is definetly out of the question with the Islamic extremist being in control of ALL the oil and even shipping it to North Korea. And God forbid i mention that the Libyian Parliment ousted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan out of office Tuesday.
Now back to Ukraine,
am I the only one that considers the hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign policy with
respect to the rhetoric hurled towards Russia?
If my history is correct, the only nation I recall Russia, since the
break-up that is going to war with was Georgia in 2008. For Obama to say that Russia needs to respect
the borders of sovereign nations is kind of lames, and like someone not living
in my home telling me what to cook: given the U.S. has had at least four wars
(all undeclared) with Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan and currently
bomb without any respect of “territorial integrity” to use the words of
Secretary of State John Kerry of places like, Yemen, Somalia, Kosovo, Serbia
Bolivia and you name it.
It is even more
ironic when one includes U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland
(wife of Robert Kagan), be caught and recorded telling the U.S. Ambassador to
Ukraine which leaders of the Ukrainian coup should be placed in a new
government and which ones should not when she quipped, “Fuck the EU.” How is it
that a simple statement is considered more news worthy than the content of her
telling a “sovereign” nation to put who the U.S. want in office and not the
people of said nation?
Even to consider the
Ukraine as a ground for the start of a “liberal democracy” is ridiculous, when
we all know it will only become a western puppet nation run by feudal
oligarchical landlords. Not to mention everybody seems to forget that if the EU
and America were not sitting on their hands, they would have been able to have
played a role other than watching the game from their living room sofa’s.
U.S. hypocrisy
regarding the Ukraine is shameful and beyond ridiculous. We say or Describe
Putin as being like Hitler (Hillary Clinton’s historical inaccuracy) yet taking
U.S. tax payer money to the tune of $1 billion to send to a government filled
with nationalist fascist yet they don’t have any money to spend on behalf of
American job seekers. We say it is anti-democratic and wrong for people to desire
and practice self-determination in the Crimea but ok for all else in Egypt,
Libya and Syria. Which suggest according to this Administration and the many
before him, self-determination is only cool when it serves the U.S. and no one else?
We all know that it was Obama that described the desire of the Crimean people
to vote, and want to vote on their future as “undemocratic” and “illegitimate.”
But none of this
won’t be told or mentioned by our government or news media. The reality is if they
did bring up Syria, or Libya, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, out hypocrisy would be
on the red carpet for all to watch and document and equal to them shooting
themselves in the foot..
