Obama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
The Bush/ Cheney/ Obama Wars of Naked Aggression
By Paul Craig Roberts
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24019
Global Research, March 29, 2011
Obama’s speech showed a person more capable of DoubleSpeak and DoubleThink than Big Brother and the denizens of George Orwell’s 1984.
What does the world think? Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia. In his March 28 speech, Obama justified his air strikes against Libya on the grounds that the embattled ruler, Gadhafi, was using air strikes to put down a rebellion.
How does a person as totally absurd as Obama expect to be taken seriously?
What does the world think? Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia. In his March 28 speech, Obama justified his air strikes against Libya on the grounds that the embattled ruler, Gadhafi, was using air strikes to put down a rebellion.
Gadhafi
has been a black hat for as long as I can remember. If we believe the
adage that “where there is smoke there is fire,” Gadhafi is probably not
a nice fellow. However, there is no doubt whatsoever that the current
US president and the predecessor Bush/Cheney regime have murdered many
times more people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than
Gadhafi has murdered in Libya.
Moreover,
Gadhafi is putting down a rebellion against state authority as
presently constituted, but Obama and Bush/Cheney initiated wars of
aggression based entirely on lies and deception.
Yet
Gadhafi is being demonized, and Bush/Cheney/Obama are sitting on their
high horse draped in cloaks of morality. Obama described himself as
saving Libyans from violence while Obama himself murders Afghans,
Pakistanis, and whomever else.
Indeed,
the Obama regime has been torturing a US soldier, Bradley Manning, for
having a moral conscience. America has degenerated to the point where
having a moral conscience is evidence of anti-Americanism and
“terrorist activity.”
The
Bush/Cheney/Obama wars of naked aggression have bankrupted America.
Joseph Stiglitz, former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic
Advisers, concluded that the money wasted on the Iraq war could have
been used to fix America’s Social Security problem for half a century. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/iraq.afghanistan Instead, the money was used to boost the obscene profits of the armament industry.
The
obscene wars of aggression, the obscene profits of the offshoring
corporations, and the obscene bailouts of the rich financial gangsters
have left the American public with annual
budget deficits of approximately $1.5 trillion. These deficits are
being covered by printing money. Sooner or later, the printing presses
will cause the US dollar to collapse and domestic inflation to explode.
Social Security benefits will be wiped out by inflation rising more
rapidly than the cost-of-living adjustments. If America survives, no
one will be left but the mega-rich. Unless there is a violent
revolution.
Alternatively,
if the Federal Reserve puts the brake on monetary expansion, interest
rates will rise, sending the economy into a deeper depression.
Washington,
focused on its newest war, is oblivious to America’s peril. As Stiglitz
notes, the costs of the Iraq war alone could have kept every foreclosed
family in their home, provided health care for every American child,
and wiped out the student loans of graduates who cannot find jobs
because they have been outsoured to foreigners. However, the great
democratic elected government of “the world’s only superpower” prefers
to murder Muslims in order to enhance the profits of the
military/security complex. More money is spent violating the
constitutional rights of American air travelers than is spent in behalf
of the needy.
The
moral authority of the West is rapidly collapsing. When Russia, Asia,
and South America look at Europe, Australia and Canada, they see
American puppet states that contribute troops to the aggressive wars of
the Empire. The French president, the British prime minister, the
“president” of Georgia, and the rest are merely functionaries of the
American Empire. The puppet rulers routinely sell out the interests and
welfare of their peoples in behalf of American hegemony. And they are
well rewarded for their service. One year out of office former British
prime minister Tony Blair had a net worth of $30 million.
In
his war against Libya, Obama has taken America one step further into
Caesarism. Obama did Bush one step better and did not even bother to get
congressional authorization for his attack on Libya. Obama claimed
that his moral authority trumped the US Constitution. The hypocrisy
reeks. How the public stands it, I do not know:
“To brush aside America’s responsibility as a leader and--more profoundly--our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”
This
from the Great Moral Leader who every day murders civilians in
Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia and now Libya and who
turns a blind eye when “the great democracy in the Middle East,” Israel, murders more Palestinians.
The
American president, whose drones and air force slaughter civilians
every day of the year went on to say Libya stands alone in presenting
the world with “the prospect of violence on a horrific scale.”
Obviously, Obama thinks that one million dead Iraqis, four million
displaced Iraqis, and an unknown number of murdered Afghans is just a
small thing.
The
rest of Obama’s speech showed a person more capable of DoubleSpeak and
DoubleThink than Big Brother and the denizens of George Orwell’s 1984.
How does a person as totally absurd as Obama expect to be taken seriously?
