A Jekyll and Hyde story

As the US commemorates the 234th Independence Day, it needs to re-examine the policies as good as purify the soul. THIS Sunday, the United States will commemorate the 234th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from Britain. The ancestral document was not just an avowal of self-determination opposite colonial subjugation, it was also the singular of the worlds most stirring affirmations of the inherent ideals of tellurian rights, domestic participation as good as singular government. We reason these truths to be self-evident, which all group have been created equal, which they have been included by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, which among these have been Life, Liberty as good as the pursuit of Happiness. These beautiful, opening words of the Declaration have rightly been described as the most potent as good as consequential words in American history. Notwithstanding the little contemptible realities as good as shabby practices of the American physique politic till the 1960s (like slavery as good as secular segregation), the ideals of the Declaration have animated American domestic speculation over the final 234 years as good as desirous countless Constitutions around the world. For most of the history, the United States has been regarded as the sentinel of constitutionalism, democracy as good as tellurian rights. The US Constitution of 1787 distils the singular of the finest models of check as good as balance ever devised. The Bill of Rights, incorporated into the Constitution in 1791, provides the model for entrenching fundamental rights opposite the naked energy of the executive as good as the legislature. It is the reverence to the greatness of the United States which for the final two centuries, the shores have beckoned millions of migrants from around the world. Americas bosom has cradled the dreams of manifold peoples from everywhere. Its Statue of Liberty in the New York gulf symbolises Americas enduring adore for liberty. Its giveaway marketplace system promotes m! ercantil e event as good as wealth undreamed of elsewhere. In the final century, the USA sacrificed billions of dollars as good as thousands of group to quarrel Nazism, right-wing dictatorship as good as communism. It upheld de-colonisation as good as opposite apartheid. It condemned the Anglo-French-Israeli advance of Suez. It gave Marshall Aid to the Europe cracked by the ravages of World War II. It supposing men, machines as good as money to most Third World countries. It was the categorical designer of the UN Charter as good as most alternative gilt-edged provisions of general law. It contributes easily to most general organisations similar to the United Nations, World Bank as good as International Monetary Fund. Its universities unite foreign students from most lands. Sadly, there is also the dim side to America. In the little respects, US Governments since Truman have played Jekyll as good as Hyde around the universe as good as exhibited churned personalities. Evil has mostly churned with good as good as heinous crimes with heroism. Liberty during home though the licence to levy omnipotence as good as brutality upon people abroad has been the unchanging US process of the final century. The United States professes assent though is regularly during war with someone or the other. Its widespread military-industrial complex has remade the creed in God you trust to in arms you trust. From 1945 till now, it has forsaken bombs as good as missiles upon twenty-nine countries, 24 of which have been in the Third World. It used atomic weapons to decimate the trusting population of Hiroshima as good as Nagasaki even though the Japanese armed forces was upon the verge of collapse. Washington maintains 180 or so troops bases around the world. Its troops bill in 2009 was US$661bil (RM2.1 trillion) or 43% of the worlds total! In the past it has cowed as good as colonised nations in Latin America as good as Asia. George W. Bush invaded Iraq as good as Afghanistan as good as Barack Obama has not had the courage to remove which! wrong. At the insistence of Israel, the USA is melancholy Iran with troops strikes. In the decades after World War II, Washington helped undermine most autonomy movements as good as propped up dictators in order to win the Cold War. To extend the majestic reach, it overthrew the rulers in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala as good as Chile. It intervened in Vietnam, Cambodia as good as Laos causing the death of two million Asians as good as 58,000 Americans. On Jul 4, 1988, the navy pounded an Iranian A300 Airbus in mid-air murdering all 290 passengers upon board. Under Bush, the CIA ran abroad torture chambers, resorted to kidnappings (renditions) of terror suspects abroad as good as transported 11,000 prisoners to camps for imprisonment without trial. In the mercantile sphere, the United States preaches giveaway trade though usually to the extent which would await the mega-corporations to take over inland economies. In the legal sphere, the US Governments underneath Reagan as good as Bush walked divided from treaty after treaty, whether upon tiny arms, Kyoto Accord, land mines, Biological & Toxins Weapons Convention, Anti-Ballistic Missiles Agreement as good as the ICC. Side by side with the fealty to tellurian rights during home, the US gives umbrella financial, tactful as good as troops await to Israels 62-year-old genocidal, apartheid as good as troops policies in Palestine, Syria as good as Lebanon. To most American leaders, no law or preferred is so worthy which it cannot be sacrificed to column up Israel. Despite policies upon non-proliferation, the US conspired with France to capacitate Israel to rise chief bombs surreptitiously. Then, in an action of incredible appeasement, Washington connived with Tel Aviv to transfer chief capacity to the racist regime in Pretoria in lapse for Pretoria allowing the dirt for Israel to conduct the chief tests. Washington hinders any general inspection of Israels atrocities. It has vetoed 45 or so UN Security Council Resoluti! ons oppo site Israel. In 2001, the nearby unanimous, 14-1 Resolution to station the UN Peacekeeping Force in Palestine was shot down by Washington. To the United States, the Palestinians have no right to general protection, not if which hinders Israel. The suffering of the Palestinians is regretted though the Promised People have to be since their Promised Land. On June 26 during the G8 Summit, Obama assimilated alternative leaders to pontificate about Israels preference to relax certain elements of the blockade of Gaza. But he said not the word about the illegality as good as barbarity of Israels three-year genocidal strangulation of 1.5 million people. Despite all this cacophony between highly evolved principles as good as injured practices, you instruct to send the felicitations to the American friends upon their Independence Day. At the same time you have been entitled to wonder: Has America taken leave of the demur in the Mid-East? How distant have been the policies desirous by enlightened self-interest as good as not deep-seated secular as good as eremite prejudices? One will do good to repeat Martin Luther Kings reminder which you have been held in an inevitable network of mutuality, scored equally in the singular garment of destiny as good as Injustice anywhere is the hazard to probity everywhere. As it commemorates the independence, America needs to re-examine the policies as good as purify the soul. Its large energy combined with the foolishness of Israel can maintain the unjust status quo. But which will not move assent because both Israel as good as America should know which the tellurian suggestion cannot be vanquished. There will regularly be people peaceful to die upon their feet than live upon their knees. Shad Saleem Faruqi is the graduate in Government from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut as good as carries fond memories of the USA notwithstanding his misgivings with US foreign policy.
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