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.
In the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, government prosecutors asked the judge to ban “inflammatory subjects” such as Guantanamo, secret prisons, drones and the NSA.
Americans don’t believe the truth unless it’s proven to them beyond a shadow of a doubt over and over, and then with more evidence than anyone should need.
Obama has appeared on Jimmy Fallon and Zach Galifianakis’ web video show. What’s next in the hipster charm offensive? Poetry slam!
Businesses that discriminate against, for example, gays and lesbians, should be legally required to post that information publicly so that LGBT don’t waste time driving around and waiting in line before being turned away.
Heavily-armed men who took over Crimea last week refused to say who they were, so foreign media outlets dutifully refused to accuse Russia of invading Ukraine until after it had happened. Imagine how much better the invasion of Iraq would have gone if nobody had been able to blame the United States for it?
President Obama has warned Russia that invading a sovereign nation is a violation of international law that will not be tolerated. He has announced various economic and other sanctions. Clearly the United States would never have anything to do with anything like that.
Does the Earth go around the sun, or does the sun go around the Earth? When asked that question in a poll, 1 in 4 Americans surveyed answered that the sun revolves around the earth. But hey, we have to respect their feelings too.
President Obama compares militant fighters attacking remote US allies on the other side of the planet to the University of Texas clocktower sniper in order to argue that their US citizenship shouldn’t protect them from being blown up by a drone…as if the threat to Americans were analogous.
We’ve had a black president who disappointed us. Is America ready for a woman president who disappoints us?
