The United States government is lecturing Russia about the invasion and annexation of Crimea, formerly part of Ukraine. But whatever moral standing the U.S. has is undermined, not only by its recent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but by the tale of its own territorial expansion, beginning with the dispossession and genocide of the Native Americans.
Intolerable
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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You tell ’em O’bummer! Crimea’s got OIL, it is therefore OUR sovereign territory. Hands off!
How did our oil get under their land?
Something sneaky about foreigners. We may not know history or understand others as being human, but given those handicaps, at least we got bombs to blow everybody up real good.
Psychotic break terminates here. I hate trying to empathize with the insane.
Why don’t the facts about the US’s own complicity in “invading and occupying” other countries seem to make into the mainstream media? Why the constant mass coverage of the US and the UN’s parade of retaliatory actions and sanctions with no mention of any historical similarity?
Lists of our global “interventions.”
http://tinyurl.com/brsk8bk
http://bit.ly/USA-at-war
http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
It’s the 1/10th of 1% in control using the other 99 9/10th of humanity as pawns. Some people have good times most of the time, most people closer to the bottom 99 do not. Meanwhile, the rule of law is an illusion. In reality, it’s the rule of power. When democracy of the republic works, individual power is institutionally shared more equally. When democracy gets corporately purchased, tyranny rules the law.
In the end, there are no innocent people.
DanD
Don’t forget that bad precedent they’re setting with a referendum, Ted ; can’t have people voting on their future, now can we ? That sort of thing is better left to the politicians and, not least, the military….
Henri