[col. writ. 9/13/13 © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
As the U.S. embarks on its latest role as enforcer of International law (even as it avoids the United Nations), it does so from a position of profound weakness.
That’s not to say that the U.S. suffers from military weakness: far from it.
But in the realm of International law their weakness is hypocrisy; for any reader of history knows that there are few international laws that the U.S. hasn’t broken. It’s kind of like billionaire swindler, Bernie Madoff, complaining about pickpockets.
When the U.S. attacks Syria for its possession and use of chemical weapons against civilians, we conveniently have forgotten about the U.S. use of white phosphorous against the men, women and children of Fallujah, in Iraq. Its use forced some 300,000 to flee from their homes in terror.
When Israel used these same weapons in Gaza, and also hundreds of Palestinians, the U.S. had no condemnations. In fact, the U.S. supplied them!
Now, they threaten to break International law again, because Syria has broken International law.
It is the law of the strong against the weak.
It is the law of force.
It is not the law of the just.
Syria, like Iraq, is reduced to the status of a demonstration of imperial power.
And that just ain’t right!
–©’13maj