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Of values and nonsense by Hameed Abdul Karim America wants the world to believe that it stands for `high moral standards' and that the abuse (not torture, mind) of Iraqi captives by American troops does not reflect those high moral standards America standards for, like as if such standards were the exclusive prerogative of the US and that no other nation or peoples have any such moral standards. That's the inference. There is the untold tragedy of the natives of America (they call then `Red Indians') that is begging for justification of the `high moral standards' that America is bragging about. It is the same morally upright America that has committed the most egregious atrocities recorded in recent history in places like Vietnam and Korea that have still not been exposed in the same way Stalin's or Hitler's crimes have been. America's backing of the White Apartheid regime of South Africa does not speak much for it touted high moral values. The present vice president Dick Cheney was against majority rule in South Africa and was dead set to prevent the release of Nelson Mandela. Shamelessly it was the same America that tried to dissuade Nelson Mandela from visiting the bad boy on the block Muammar Gaddafi who had all along supported Mandela and his ANC both financially and morally. Not surprisingly Mandela told the Americans to go get stuffed. No Tom, Dick or Cheney was to dictate terms to him! Moral America's support of Israel's state terror against the Palestinians on a daily basis is another point that runs in the face of America's claim of high moral standards. While it continues to speak a language of official morality America has vetoed over sixty US Security Council resolutions that condemned Israel for its atrocities against the Palestinians. The Americans want to export democracy to the whole world but at the UN they seem to be rather wanting in that ideology. Under the UN sanctions sponsored by America and the UK over a million Iraqis perished including over half a million children-it is the same UN that has a fund to improve the lives of children under UNICEF. The sanctions by themselves were a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) The world is clamouring for justice on the `abuse' of Iraqi detainees but the holocaust of Iraqis by the UN sanctions seems to have been taken off the records. And yet they amount to war crimes and Koffi Annan should be facing charges instead of being given the Nobel Peace Prize! America is the only a country that has been categorised as a `terrorist state' by the World Court for the atrocities it committed in Nicaragua. This doesn't sound like a good qualification to go round the world preaching America's version of 'high moral values'. Just as much as America wants the whole world to learn from them, including 'Old Europe' it seems rather a pity that the same America refuses to learn from other countries or people. Perhaps it could take an object lesson on truth and justice from Mandela's and Desmond Tutu's `black' South Africa. It might give new life and a new dimension to King's `I have a dream'. |
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