(I posted a comment on Booman’s recent article First Response to the Singapore Summit. It grew. Here it is as an independent post.)
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Booman linked:
A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in North Korea stated that systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the government included murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, and other sexual violence, and constituted crimes against humanity.
All those accusations are quite possibly true. Since I do not particularly trust the United Nations bureaucracy in general to be anything other than biased towards the demands of its major funders (see below), I will take that information with a grain of salt. This observation will undoubtedly be countered by people saying things like “But…but…that fat little madman Kim Jong Un executes people using anti-aircraft missiles!!!” I have no quarrel with that observation, be it true or false. Not very classy, but what the hell…dead is dead and he certainly got the attention of his 25 million population. Bet on it. The U.S. executes its supposed domestic enemies by massive incarceration rates, slow death by poverty plus all of its nasty consequences, and the more than occasional police bullet. So it goes. Our masses…all 325 million…get the point too. Most of them, anyway. Bet on that as well.
The point towards which I am traveling here is quite simple. The systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations committed by the Permanent Government of the United States…both domestically and internationally…have also included “murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, other sexual violence, and constituted crimes against humanity” since at least the end of WWII if not well before.
My point?
Especially with Trump in power…about as classy as Kim Jong Un if not worse…
The U.S. and North Korea are natural allies!!!
We are finally getting exactly what we have asked for by supporting a bipartisan, PermaWar government for 50+ years.
Eisenhower tried to warn us in his farewell speech. Listen to it and weep.
We…most of us…didn’t listen.
Now we stand threatened with the distinct possibility of reaping that mistaken whirlwind.
Are we ready to listen now?
Let us pray that it is so.
Or will we once again fall for the habitual…and very effective…line of our military/political “pragmatists?”
It’s a nasty world out there, folks. Gotta fight fire with fire!!!
Yeah.
Right.
Somebody lights a match to try to survive and gets blown away by…by the equivalent of an anti-aircraft missile if not worse.
Kim Un Jong was…and remains…a big fan of American culture. Basketball, styles of music…highly devolved styles, I might add…that owe a great deal to U.S. pop, etc.
He’s learned his lessons well.
Later…
AG
P.S. From Wikipedia:
The United States is host to the headquarters of the United Nations, which includes the usual meeting place of the General Assembly in New York City, the seat of the Security Council and several bodies of the United Nations. The United States is the largest provider of financial contributions to the United Nations, providing 22 percent of the entire UN budget in 2017 (in comparison the next biggest contributor is Japan with almost 10 percent, while EU countries pay a total of above 30 percent).[1] From July 2016 to June 2017, 28.6 percent of the budget used for peacekeeping operations was provided by the United States.[2] The United States had a pivotal role in establishing the UN.
To save you, dear readers, the trouble of adding up those percentages, that means that at least 62% of the UN’s funding comes from the U.S. and its major allies. More, if you consider Australia., Canada etc. Add to that the plain fact that the U.N….and most of its functioning supervisory bureaucracy…resides quite well in the heart of one of the most expensive and luxurious cities in the world, and you have good reason to leaven your belief in the relative accuracy of its reporting regarding U.S. friends and foes.
Just sayin’…
May as well just call it the United Statesions!!!