Editorial
September 29, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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For years, US presidents have regaled
the UN General Assembly with rosy and
ridiculous rhetoric about America allegedly
doing great things for world peace.
Notwithstanding such criminal barbarities as
the US genocidal wars in Vietnam, Iraq and
elsewhere, the UN has tended to be a silent
forum while American leaders indulged in
fantasies about their nation’s “virtuous
greatness”. That silence was either from
fear or bamboozlement by American phony
rhetoric.
This year,
however, the assembly burst out in laughter
at President Trump’s vain claims of
greatness. It’s about time too. American
claims have always been wildly overblown.
This year’s disbelieving reaction among
delegates was not only appropriate. It also
shows that the world openly views US claims
as ridiculously disconnected from reality.
The rampant
contradictions articulated by President
Trump in his address to the 73rd United
Nations General Assembly are too many to
condense here.
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He called for
the world to “choose peace and freedom over
domination” – that from a leader of a nation
that has waged scores of wars in flagrant
violation of international law during the
seven decades since the UN was established
following the Second World War.
Trump claimed
the US has defeated terrorists in Syria and
Iraq, when in reality American illegal wars,
covert and overt, have unleashed these same
terrorist as proxies for its regime-change
machinations.
There were so
many other absurd contradictions in American
self-righteousness as enunciated by Trump.
But perhaps the most glaring was this: Trump
was calling on the nations of the world to
join in America’s campaign of aggression
against Iran over the latter’s alleged
“sponsorship of terrorism” – when it is the
US that is the biggest sponsor of terrorism.
Trump’s
unilateral abrogation of the international
nuclear accord with Iran earlier this year
is a brazen violation of international law.
Yet, this American president demands that
all nations indulge his government’s
transgression against an international
treaty to satisfy Washington’s obsession for
regime change in Tehran.
American
conduct of illegal wars and regime change in
the Middle East and beyond has undermined
international law and gravely incited
tensions.
The spectacle
of President Trump bullying the world to
comply with US rogue-state behavior with
regard to Iran is a contradiction too far –
and no wonder the world is confounded by
Washington’s absurd arrogance.
How can
anyone have the slightest respect for
American self-proclaimed leadership when it
is in fact a rogue state that has no respect
for international law and rules?
That has
always been the case, despite florid,
vainglorious rhetoric about American
probity. But under Trump the contradiction
between rhetoric and reality of American
munificence and misconduct has become too
stark to ignore. The only appropriate
response is to laugh.
Trump extols
the principle of “sovereignty” of nations.
Yet, in his threats delivered at the UN this
week, Trump has no respect for sovereignty
of nations that do not kowtow to
Washington’s diktat.
This American
president has open contempt for multilateral
accords, the Iran deal in particular. It is
the US which has shown bad faith and
criminal disregard towards the 2015 nuclear
accord ratified by the UN. This violation of
the accord is leading to tensions and
instability in the Middle East, as Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out
to the UN Security Council this week.
Still, Trump
tries to make a virtue of this American
vice, and what’s more, to lay down
ultimatums to the rest of the world to
acquiesce to American bullying, or else face
retribution with punitive sanctions.
The American
leader is a leader in the most nefarious
sense. Leading the world into lawlessness
and certain conflict that accompanies such
lawlessness.
Trump’s
platitudes about “sovereignty” are nothing
other than a license for American
rogue-state conduct unfettered by
international law and global accountability.
In reality, American power is degenerating
into an embrace of the kind of fascistic
licentiousness that prevailed in the 1930s
which led to world war.
It surely is
a sign of the times when an American
president stands up in front of the world
and gratuitously exults in his nation’s
contempt for global law, order and peace.
All delivered with smug self-righteousness.
No wonder the world is laughing. The
disconnect from reality is too much to bear.
But it is no
laughing matter. America is accusing
everyone of malfeasance – Russia and China
in particular – when the barefaced reality
is that Washington is the scourge of world
peace. America’s trashing of international
order is only matched by its trashing of
reason and any possible dialogue to uphold
international order.
America
claims to have led the establishment of the
United Nations out of ashes of the Second
World War in 1945. That war and its fascist
protagonists were the outgrowth of a failing
capitalist system. The system is failing
again and producing the same conditions for
nation-state-led rivalry and war.
History seems
to be coming back to that same point.
Trump’s ridiculous and reckless ultimatums
delivered to the world this week at the UN
shows how the causes of war have never been
solved. American rhetoric is breaking down
from its preposterous pretense of being a
law-abiding “leader of the free world” to
reveal, ominously, the same fascistic
tendency for war.
We may indeed
chuckle at Trump’s clownish claims. But the
deadly serious issue is how to prevent this
rogue state from inciting another world war.
As the great
German playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote:
“War is a bastard, but the bitch that bore
him is on heat again.”
America’s
complete disregard for international order
and compliance, as expressed by President
Trump this week at the UN, is the evidence
of war on the horizon once again due to
capitalist chaos in the world order. US
failure as the world’s foremost capitalist
power is manifest in Trump’s bullying and
boorish exultation of lawlessness.
On one hand,
the breakdown is hilarious, absurd, risible.
On the other hand, it is gravely alarming.
==See Also==
President Donald Trump's full speech at the
UNGA
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