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‘US Pacific Fleet
Commander, Admiral Harry Harris, then said that it (a US missile destroyer,
which entered Chinese territorial waters) was a signal to Beijing about the
impermissibility of its actions on disputed territories.
'"Fake islands
should not be believed by real people," Harris told Fox News.’
“Fake islands” versus
“real people”? So, is Admiral Harris supposed to an example of a real person?
A truly, laughably moronic statement, one worthy of another
outstanding example of America’s real people, Nikki Haley. The Admiral must
have heard Nikki during her recent reading of a children’s book.
Of course, whenever people try to defend the indefensible,
they pretty quickly fall into absurdities. Just listen to the words of any
major American government spokesperson on almost any topic in international
affairs. Or listen to Israel’s Netanyahu on what property belongs to Israel or
on cutting electricity to the people of Gaza still suffering from his last bout
of mass killing. Or to Saudi Arabia’s new Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, on
the subject of bombing women and children in Yemen or of blockading Qatar.
'"China is using its military and economic power to
erode the rules-based international' order," the Admiral added.
Good God, I think psychologists have a name for the
Admiral’s state of mind. It’s called “projection” when someone accuses another
of doing precisely what it is that he himself is doing.
After all, here is the Admiral, perhaps ten or twelve
thousand miles from home, denigrating what he finds the locals doing as he
steams by in his massive war ship.
The Admiral’s is a perfect summary of the course the United
States has been on for years with its “phony no-fly zone” bombings, its supply
and support of mercenary-terrorist invasions in half a dozen countries, its
missile attacks on armies that have not attacked it, its endless attacks on
international institutions like the UN where it threatens regularly to cease
its treaty-obliged financial support if it doesn’t get just the changes it
wants, and with its aggressive support for the world’s worst outlaw nation,
Israel, which in fact stands in violation of dozens of binding UN Resolutions
and of every principle in international law and accords.
