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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Parry: America’s Staggering Hypocrisy
from Consortium News:
Americas Staggering Hypocrisy
March 4, 2014
Exclusive: Official Washington is in deep umbrage over Russias intervention in Ukraine after a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected president. Some top neocons want a new Cold War, but they dont want anyone to note their staggering hypocrisy, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
Since World War II and extending well into the Twenty-first Century the United States has invaded or otherwise intervened in so many countries that it would be challenging to compile a complete list. Just last decade, there were full-scale U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, plus American bombing operations from Pakistan to Yemen to Libya.
So, what is one to make of Secretary of State John Kerrys pronouncement that Russias military intervention in the Crimea section of Ukraine at the behest of the countrys deposed president is a violation of international law that the United States would never countenance?
Kerry decried the Russian intervention as a Nineteenth Century act in the Twenty-first Century. However, if memory serves, Sen. Kerry in 2002 voted along with most other members of the U.S. Congress to authorize President George W. Bushs invasion of Iraq in 2003, which was also part of the Twenty-first Century. And, Kerry is a member of the Obama administration, which like its Bush predecessor, has been sending drones into the national territory of other nations to blow up various enemy combatants.
Are Kerry and pretty much everyone else in Official Washington so lacking in self-awareness that they dont realize that they are condemning actions by Russian President Vladimir Putin that are far less egregious than what they themselves have done? .......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/04/americas-staggering-hypocrisy/
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Robert Parry: America’s Staggering Hypocrisy (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2014
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Staggering Hypocrisy? That makes it sound like a burden, weighing us down.
kenny blankenship
Mar 2014
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. du rec.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)3. Staggering Hypocrisy? That makes it sound like a burden, weighing us down.
On the contrary, this country runs on hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the wind beneath our eagle wings.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)5. Magnificent
indepat
(20,899 posts)7. A substantial portion of the American public seems not to have come to grips with the fact that
junior's invasion of Iraq was a quintessential war of aggression under international law.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)4. Rec.
The first I recall were the US fucking over both Guatemala and Chile.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)6. The truth hurts. Rec n/t