Is the U.S. reaction to Osama bin Laden’s death embarrassing for a country that likes to see itself as a magnanimous force for justice in the world? For Mexico’s La Jornada, columnist Jose Blanco writes that U.S. behavior since bin Laden was killed rips the mask off of a hypocritical, self-absorbed global empire, intent on infringing on the sovereignty on other nations under the guise of a global rule of law.
For Mexico’s La Jornada, Jose Blanco writes in part:
It cuts straight to the bone to hear U.S. government leaders talking like gangsters – of killing and torture as if they were talking of champagne and canapés. They conjugate the verb “kill” as naturally as they “speak” or “sleep.” Especially when applied to the “enemy alien,” the alien, the cultural “other,” the non-gringo. It is the language of a bloodthirsty empire to speak of killing another the way one would speak of killing a poisonous insect.
And this inconsistency also sounds petulant and glib. Obama says without hesitation that the world will be a better place without Osama bin Laden – but an intensification of the war with al-Qaeda awaits us all.
The empire and a good part of the Atlantic Alliance has at all times and with raised voice called for democracy and respect for human rights in all corners of the planet; but, in timely fashion, when circumstances and the moment has arrived and the “other” is not worthy of the word human by decision of the empire, and hence has no human rights of any description, he is considered a poisonous lice that must be killed with a single swat.
This is what the imperialists want now – to completely remove sovereignty from decisions made regarding a nation’s own territory, and to enter, leave, kill, torture, and do what they please anywhere on earth that isn’t recognized as “civilized” by the empire itself.
North Africa and the Middle East are becoming even more complex and contentious. With great difficulty, from Morocco to Syria, a profound social undercurrent with democratic characteristics and of far-reaching power and scope is making itself felt – and in the end, it will be this that brings down al-Qaeda, not the sophisticated weapons of the empire.
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