Obama Deifies American Hegemony — Paul Craig Roberts
Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much
good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had
limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as
the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet Union. In
our time Washington had UN tanks sent in against Bosnian Serbs during
the period that Washington was dismantling Yugoslavia and Serbia and
accusing Serbian leaders, who tried to defend the integrity of their
country against Washington’s aggression, of “war crimes.”
The UN supported Washington’s sanctions against Iraq that resulted in
the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. When asked about it, Clinton’s
Secretary of State said, with typical American heartlessness, that the
deaths of the children were worth it. In 2006 the UN voted sanctions
against Iran for exercising its right as a signatory of the
non-proliferation treaty to develop atomic energy. Washington claimed
without any evidence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon in
violation of the non-proliferation treaty, and this lie was accepted by
the UN. Washington’s false claim was repudiated by all 16 US
intelligence agencies and by the International Atomic Energy Agency
inspectors on the ground in Iran, but in the face of the factual
evidence the US government and its presstitute media pressed the claim
to the point that Russia had to intervene and take the matter out of
Washington’s warmonger hands. Russia’s intervention to prevent US
military attacks on Iran and Syria resulted in the demonization of
Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. “Facts?!, Washington don’t
need no stinkin’ facts! We got power!” Today at the UN Obama asserted
America’s over-riding power many times: the strongest military in the
world, the strongest economy in the world.
The UN has done nothing to stop Washington’s invasions and bombings,
illegal under international law, of seven countries or Obama’s overthrow
by coup of democratic governments in Honduras and Ukraine, with more in
the works.
