Hypocrisy
I feel great shame over the actions of my country's government. I have found the violent foreign policy of the past eight years hard to bear. Today we see the hypocrisy of those in power in the United States.
Swift to bomb and kill tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq, who were victims of the Saddam Hussein regime, in the name of liberating them, our government now stands back and analyzes dryly as civilians fight dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt. Under the pretext of remaining "calm" and "civil", our robotic President pontificates on the situation in Egypt with the same attitude which Americans frequently perceive as elitist snobbery. How calm and civil is this Commander-in-Chief when he is overseeing the bombing of villages in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
I thank the people of Tunisia and Egypt for shining a light on failed American foreign policy. I admire them for bringing the focus of "freedom" back to human rights and economic justice. "Freedom" in American English now means "cheap gas prices" or "low taxes". I am embarrassed for the President of the United States and his Secretary of State, who pose as Liberal icons in America. How far from the spirit of John F. Kennedy they have drifted! In fact, today, they seem to stand to the Right of Ronald Reagan's position in 1989. They epitomize the hypocrisy of the current Democratic Party.
Swift to bomb and kill tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq, who were victims of the Saddam Hussein regime, in the name of liberating them, our government now stands back and analyzes dryly as civilians fight dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt. Under the pretext of remaining "calm" and "civil", our robotic President pontificates on the situation in Egypt with the same attitude which Americans frequently perceive as elitist snobbery. How calm and civil is this Commander-in-Chief when he is overseeing the bombing of villages in Afghanistan and Pakistan?I thank the people of Tunisia and Egypt for shining a light on failed American foreign policy. I admire them for bringing the focus of "freedom" back to human rights and economic justice. "Freedom" in American English now means "cheap gas prices" or "low taxes". I am embarrassed for the President of the United States and his Secretary of State, who pose as Liberal icons in America. How far from the spirit of John F. Kennedy they have drifted! In fact, today, they seem to stand to the Right of Ronald Reagan's position in 1989. They epitomize the hypocrisy of the current Democratic Party.
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