As the UN considers action against Syria for allegedly not cooperating in the Hariri assassination, let it also consider pressuring the US regarding illegal wars where hundreds of thousands are un justifiably "assassinated" as collateral damage and the life-lines of entire cities are cut off to force mass evacuations. Let the UN also pressure Israel for its numerous, well-advertised, extra-judicial assassinations of Palestinians, not to mention the over 50 year of UN resolutions that Israel has been violating and disregarding, supported avidly by the U.S. The pressure on Syria proves once again how the Higher Immorality, the impersonal yet massive corruption of the US elite operates: The assassination of one person (Hariri) can be used in order to cause misery, suffering and death to millions by economic sanctions and deprivation, helped by the so-called "international" bodies like the UN.
Even though the conservatives in the US (the myopic ones as against the sophisticated capitalists among them) consider the UN with suspicion, their intelligence being unable transcend the surface symbolism, the UN by its actions and what it considers important and unimportant, proves itself to be just another agency for legitimizing US global hegemony, through its many "rackets" of global partnership. The now defunct Iraqi Information minister, Saeed Sahaaf, having seen the objective effects (in 1991 and 2003) of the UN’s worthlessness as a force for global peace, with diplomacy being a mere prelude to war, accurately described it as “a whore under the feet of the Americans".
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