Afghanistan and the Emerald City
Okay. I have to ask:
Why are all those folks who were screaming for the U.S. to get involved in the recent Iranian election aftermath sitting on their hands while Hamid Karzai walks away with an equally corrupt and fraudulent election in Afghanistan? Folks like John McCain and others who were quick out of the box to criticize the President for not doing more in Iran, but who are sitting on their hands while Hamid Karzai steals everything but the kitchen sink.
This is the kind of thing that drives people in the other countries of the world absolutely crazy when the United States starts wrapping itself in the flag and spouting all that talk about freedom and democracy.
On the one hand, you have all the arrogant rhetoric about how the United States is the greatest country on earth because of its freedom and democracy while, on the other hand, you have that same United States silently supporting the very behavior that undermines those principles.
And not a word–not…one…word–from the John McCains and the other “freedom loving Americans” about the fact that the Afghanistan election was as far away from a free and fair election as it could get. Not one word of outrage that the United States would continue to support a Hamid Karzai while he steamrolled the very principles that America was founded on.
Not one word.
So, here’s the deal: Americans can’t understand why the rest of the world hates us. Most Americans believe the rest of the world is just jealous of what we have. But maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world hates us because we don’t walk the talk. Maybe they hate us because we prop up puppet regimes when it’s in our best interest to do so.
Maybe the rest of the world came to the Emerald City to see the Wizard, and maybe they got a good hard look at the man behind the curtain instead.
And maybe they just plain didn’t like what they saw.
© 2009, Mac Williams. All rights reserved.
Tags: Afghanistan Elections, Election Fraud, Fair Elections, Hamid Karzai
Afghanistan | Mac Williams | 02 November 2009 |
By ChipH, November 3, 2009 @ 02:35
http://afghanistanpetroleum.com
We have prepared a complete analysis of the $100B’s of Afghan natural resources being auctioned off, the fabled Aynak copper mines, the 1.6B barrel of oil and 16T cubic feet of gas, the fabled Hajigak iron and coke range, $100B’s being auctioned off right through the elections, waiting on Karzai’s desk to be signed ‘on or before February 5, 2010′, and NOT ONE WORD in the US media or from our US leaders, and we sent this analysis to every major news editor in the United States and NOT ONE RESPONDED.