by StarmanSkye » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:41 pm
America's largely unacknowledged history of grievious hypocrisy, irresponsibility, dishonesty and duplicious alterior motives in its foreign policy is the basis for greater and greater frauds that now affects almost every political office --it's the elephant in the room everyone is aware of but that most people prefer to ignore. The result is a pragmatic cynicism and tacit accomodation to government in which lies, corruption and fraud have become normalized.<br><br>Fifty years ago, the State Dept. was keen to undermine Iran's nascent democracy and install a resurrected Monarchy because the President was going to nationalize its US and British-run oil industry. The US-installed and staunchly-supported Shah banned political pluralism and brutally repressed all dissent. If the US was sincere (cough, gag) about 'bringing' democracy to Iran, it should FIRST re-establish its credibility by thoroughly reviewing and revising its hypocritical, illegal and morally illegitimate Foreign Policy -- and fully prosecuting everyone who was involved in the policy, planning and covert ops that violated Iran's sovereignty by overthrowing Iran's democratically-elected President and actively endorsing the resulting despotic 25-year rule. Essentially, the US should acknowledge and apologize for its monstrous sabotage of authentic democratic principles and its betrayal of the Iranian people -- a similiar script repeated in many dozens of nations during the past 50+ years and which arguably has greatly contributed to the nation and the world's present political and economic crises.<br><br>That's the crux of what keeps sticking in my gut, the more I learn about the US's two-faced role in the post-war world imposing conditions that are counter to the ideals of national sovereignty, self-determinism and self-governance, rule of law and social justice, respect for human and civil rights, respect for all persons, and valuing peace as the most desired and widely beneficial state of human society.<br><br>The most basic precept of moral behavior, 'Do unto others as you would have them do into you' seems not just to be discounted, but to have become a singularly most despised and reviled principle that is inimical to US foreign policy. The positions and policies the US has to other nations are often those it would NEVER accept itself -- which leads to the most specious rationalizations and devious reasonings like those we've increasingly seen, ie., picking and choosing WHICH parts of the human rights conventions the US will observe, inventing the doctrine of pre-emptive 'defense', disguising military intervention as 'humanitarian aid', vastly expanding and developing its Nuclear weapon inventory -- and formalizing a new first-use doctrine (while hpocritically demonizing select enemy-nations who are developing their nuclear capability), employing a military doctrine of scorched-earth total-warfare (ie., 'fear-and-awe') including 'acceptable' torture, reprisals and the terrorizing of civilians, and intervening in other nation's domestic political and economic affairs (openly as well as covertly).<br><br>Perhaps as despicable, an offshoot of this national 'policy' of hypocrisy and fraud is a popular public attitude of pride and even enthusiasm that disguises arrogance and contempt as courage and generosity. An oft-seen phenomenon among many people who ought to know better about some truly awful things their government has done or is doing is a seemingly-willful denial of fact, or even such self-deluding idiocies as reviling or discrediting the messenger by way of dismissing the message. For instance: HOW can anyone justify the scorched-earth/free-fire-zone treatment of the entire city of Fallujah, with a population of 200,000 - 250,000 -- with women, children and old men allowed to evacuate to unsupplied refugee camps (at the beginning of winter, 2004!), and the US military bombing the hospital and then the entire city, utterly destroying or severely damaging most homes and businesses?<br><br>To any rational, civilized person, this is clearly a huge war crime, made even worse by the specious premise of the war as a kind of 'self-defense' -- and now the US is agitating military violence against Iran because it is messing-around with nuclear stuff -- or more probably, the oil bourse threatens the sanctity of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, necessary to keep the whole ponzi-scheme floating and that the world's biggest globalist gangsters are dependant on.<br><br>As for a single moment when the US collectively took the 'wrong' path -- the Johnson coup d'etat of '63 works for me. Everything that has happened since can be traced to that single act of treason -- even tho it was likely bought-and-sold by most of those involved as a kind of 'noble' patriotic act that would be good for 'business'.<br><br>The NWO and Global War on Terra are legacies of that hostile takeover.<br><br>Starman <p></p><i></i>
