STFU, Washington!

That the foreign policy of the United States of America is hypocritical in the extreme, there is no doubt. For decades, Washington has failed to practice what it preaches, in fact its policies have been the antithesis of its holier-than-thou attitude. What compounds the problem are the arrogance and insolence which accompany the hypocrisy.

Photo: Guantanamo, US torture camp in Cuba

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We do not need to dig very deep into Washington's dustbin to find a growing number of skeletons: the USA is the only country to have committed an act of nuclear terrorism, twice, it strafed civilians with chemical weapons in Vietnam, on numerous occasions, conducted experiments on live human beings on several others and we are not speaking of a distant past belonging to yesteryear when people did things differently.

Since 2001, practically during the same decade we are in, we had the invasion of Afghanistan based upon the energy lobby's fascination with the resources of the country and the desire to construct a pipeline across its territory, frustrated by Mullar Mohammed Omar and his Taleban regime. We had the lies leading up to the invasion of Iraq because the energy lobby wanted to gain a foothold in one of the Middle East's richest nations and because Iraq was an important piece in the puzzle leading to the surrounding of Iran. We had the torture and concentration camp in Iraq, we have today the torture and concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay, the most serious human rights issue on the Isle of Cuba.

We had the illegal invasion of Libya and the support of terrorists in ousting Muammar al-Qattafi's Jamahiriya government and turning Libya once more into one of Africa's poorest states after al-Qattafi gave it the highest human development index in the continent. And today, we have the same support for some of the same terrorists (Libyans, Afghans and Chechens) in Syria.

Yesterday, we had the cherry on the cake: Washington's "deep disappointment" at the conviction of Aleksandr Navalny, delivered by no less than the US ambassador to the Russian Federation, Michael McFaul. Now, supposing Moscow had said to Washington that is was deeply disappointed that a (white) night watchman can gun down an unarmed (black) boy and be acquitted because he was acting in self defence? Nowhere else on the planet would that verdict be made.

Suppose Moscow was to transmit its "deep disappointment" at the torture ongoing in Guantanamo Bay? Did Moscow express its "deep disappointment" when US aircraft strafed cereal fields in Iraq to deprive the people of food? Did Moscow express its "deep disappointment" at Washington's growing list of war crimes and interference in the affairs of sovereign nations?

And does Washington not respect Russia's institutions? With what insolence does ambassador McFaul deliver such a puerile and inconsequential message (like, who the Hell cares what Washington thinks these days - get your own house in order, stop breaking international law on a daily basis and then maybe someone will listen), in deriding Russia's sovereign judicial system, which is one hundred percent independent and devoid of political influence?

Can we say the same of NATO's kangaroo court, the ICC at the Hague which as yet has not answered the law case brought against NATO personnel (below*) and which has not even accused a single NATO military or political leader of the war crimes detailed in the document and on numerous other occasions in other theatres of war?

So suppose Washington STFU and minded its own business?

(*)http://english.pravda.ruhttps://english.pravda.ru/opinion/119534-indictment_nato/

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru