Public policy, social issues, gender politics, religion, civitas, and other taboo topics fall under the hammer of Shava's iconoclasmic force of natural philosophy.
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UN Resolutions of Mass Deception
Thursday, October 16, 2003
10:19 PM
Mr. Secretary General, members of the Security Council, I would like to speak today about the recent UN resolution 1511 concerning international support for the stabilization of Iraq...
I have to say I have reservations. In the United States, we see a country whose delivery of social services -- education, support for the poor, even the maintenance of infrastructure such as the electrical grid and public transportation -- has been in decline. Yet we expect that they will assume the leadership in rebuilding Iraq, when all major contracts are going to their own corporations, in blatant disregard for local custom and standards. The money to rebuild Iraq would be more wisely managed by nearly any country in the world except perhaps Argentina.
Yet the competence of the obese and bloated corporatists of the American occupation crony capitalists is hardly coming into question in this world forum.
We have not only tolerated their occupation of Iraqi territory, but we have agreed to aid them in cleaning up their mess, to their profit.
It is in the spirit of prior UN Resolutions that I call into question our willingness to give humanitarian aid to an aggressive power who will only use that aid to free up funding for their own military interests in the region. I believe that the current dictator in Iraq (since the US has taken control of affairs, and there is no real democracy) is being treated with extraordinary courtesy compared to the prior dictator in Iraq.
Iraq is one of the largest sources of petroleum in the world. But the US, as a nation of consumers, is the largest source of commerce of any country in the world. Is it because we can not afford to turn away the dollar from our borders that we are caving to the empire-building interests of the bully of the West?
I say this with great respect for the American people, who seem unable to evict a neoconservative junta from their capital, despite election standards that would have voided diplomatic and trade relations with any country of the global south. I see the people of the United States as the victims, but perhaps too much the co-operating victims, in their own country's fall from respect in the greater world.
How shall we, the many peoples of the many nations, view this late acquiescence to a bad measure? What was it that transpired this week that caused the members of the security council to turn 180 degrees around on this question?
There are people all over the world who are waiting to see the next cascade of bad developments in this affair. We only pray for the best to come from it.
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