In 2014 More Powder Will Wash Away from America’s Face

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/News/229890/in-2014-more-powder-will-wash-away-from-americas-face/

In 2014 More Powder Will Wash Away from America’s Face
al-Thawra, Syria
By Dina al-Hamd
Translated By Jackson Allan
4 January 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer

World public opinion still sees the United States of America as a violent country that supports terrorism and spreads chaos around the world because of its imperialist policies, which are based on realizing the interests of its monopolist corporations. Today, America’s image seems to have fallen to its worst state, which contrasts with the improving image of its adversaries, like China and Russia. What is the core reason for the staying power of such an image, and why has the Obama administration failed to change this image, even though it has indicated on more than one occasion that it rejects the policies of intervention and invasion that the previous administration — that of George W. Bush — employed?

Understanding the answer to this important question doesn’t require much explaining of special terms or deciphering and unraveling of mysteries, for it is as clear as the midday sun. The United States’ historical record is filled with human rights violations all around the world. When it conducts interventions on the pretense of defending these rights, it kills millions of people and displaces just as many, devastating states and peoples in their entirety under the cover of these false pretenses.

If we try delving into United States foreign policy, we find that Iraq is a glaring example of those violations. After Washington misled the world about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, it invaded the country, killed and displaced millions of people, destroyed its army and institutions and set it back decades.

The same thing applied to Afghanistan, where the United States’ invasion left behind tens of thousands of dead and displaced and entered the country into the forges of constructive chaos, all in the name of fighting terrorism and quelling al-Qaida, just as drones intervene daily into Pakistan and kill innocent civilians on the pretext of pursuing Taliban units.

[merrily]

1. We will be even more disliked this year?

Hard to imagine.

[Scuba]

2. America's international image is that of a drunken bully.