COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY DAVID USBORNE IN THE
INDEPENDENT
“Donald Trump's
dangerous flattery of foreign dictators shows how little he cares about human
rights”
Trump's?
Where has the author been? Travelling in deep space?
America's friends abroad for decades have included the likes
of Ceausescu's Romania, the Shah's Iran, Diem’s South Vietnam, Thieu’s South
Vietnam, Pinochet's Chile, the House of Saud, Mubarak's Egypt, Occupying
Israel, Marcos’s Philippines, the totally-crooked PRI in Mexico (for over 70
years), the former junta in Argentina, the absolute monarchs of Bahrain and
Kuwait and Oman, and on and on.
Morals and values and ethics never count in American foreign
policy.
Never, although a great wall of meaningless words to the contrary
is constantly under repair and extension by Washington’s army of PR flacks.
The only thing that counts with this throbbing imperial power
is: are you with us or against us?
Always.
