from Lord Anthony
In the aftermath of Iran’s electoral re-endorsement of Ahmadinejad, President Obama and USA did nothing to restore its disintegrated world image.
Sure, it seems there were some counting-concerns over there, but nothing the electoral-observer community could really make a stink about.
It seems Ahmadinejad won, kind of fair and fairly square.
Besides, the election was an internal matter for Iranians. Can you imagine a Canadian election being subjected to this level of uninvited scrutiny, criticism and suspicion?
No wonder Iranian leaders tell the Obamas of this world to mind their own business, especially when it comes to elections.
Incidentally there is more than a passing similarity between the real and the cardboard leaders involved in USA and Iran……
Stern-faced Obama’s pretty words are to USA what Nero’s fiddling was to Rome.
USA is leading the world on a scale of problems which beggar the imagination. But with their media-stranglehold, you have to dig for real information… or spend a few witnessing days and nights driving through the midwest as I did recently, not pretty.
Incidentally, one of those problems is unchecked militarisation, according to Thomas Homer- Dixon.
History points out that there can be no armies without significant food-surpluses.It’s no accident that the obscene growth of the MIC in the last fifty years has coincided with unprecedented agricultural change, allowing millions of well-fed uniforms to run around the world smashing things and killing people without ever having to worry about what’s in the pot for supper.
Although this supply-dynamic is rapidly changing, militaries don’t care because they’ve gained huge self-serving momentum over the needs of ordinary people, who unfortunately won’t wake up until they’re starving and their tattered armies are meeting their Waterloos.
I believe USA, notwithstanding its epidemic of obesity, is already on this path.
I wish I could source this quote: “…it is well and good for us to reach the best we can into the torrents of human misery to pluck unfortunates from their fate but we must also take a walk upstream to see who is throwing them in….”
Obama and his country know who those throwing-in people are.
To re-invigorate the squandered moral leadership of USA, President Obama cannot continue to avert his eyes from the monsters who did the damage.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are easing themselves into after-office respectability having devastated their country and squandered the international respect it once enjoyed, but nobody has the guts to call them to account.
If President Obama continues to duck this crucial responsibility he will be gone next election, to be replaced by President Hillary Clinton.
She’d love that.
Well put.
The damage done by the United States goes well beyond the Bush Cheney era back into the time of President Eisenhower, who hooked up with a warmongering British leader, Winston Churchill.
The two of them conspired to overthrow the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran. They then installed the brutal dictator, Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Iran’s memories of the bloody Shah are still vivid decades after his fall and the country’s opinion of the U.S. is largely shaped by that history.
The arrogance of the West is unbounded when it comes to lording it over other less fortunate regions.
But it’s not just Obama who needs to admit to the squandered moral leadership of the founding fathers of his Republic…all the nations of the western world must join in.
Until we come to terms with our own historic misdeeds, we are not allowed to pass judgement on others.
Again, Lord Anthony, you have hit it right on the head again. There is still the same agenda in place in the U.S. and Obama just speaks nicely while he’s giving it to you up the backside. It’s always the same when the Democrats and the Republicans trade places. Still the same show though. I felt the Iranians were being fairly honest about the results compared to Afghanistan and Iraq. I do believe the long arm of the U.S. shit disturbers are still involved with the protests, in Iran, and also in Honduras as well. No matter what is said on the media. Actually, Jim, I read some pretty bad things which happened during Eisenhower’s watch involving Africa and South America as well. I don’t think Canada, though, is on the same par with the U.S. as far as meddling, and invasions causing mass deaths, so I shall continue to bash them for it. Just call it a “character default” I have.