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Quote by: rmnunez  The US chaired the High Commission for Human Rights for decades incessantly calling for their respect and defending victims of oppression. |
And while we sat on the HCHR, proclaiming with sufficient pomp our commitment to Human Rights and condemning the crimes of our enemies, we quietly -- and sometimes not so quietly -- cultivated the most heinous of strong-men and torturers. Saddam Hussein. Pinochet. The Shah. The Contras. Rios Montt. Marcos. Suharto. The list goes on and continues into the present. There's a word for it -- starts with an "H" and ends with an "ypocrisy."
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Quote by: rmnunez The US has been, and remains, by far the most generous purveyor of development assistance to third world countries. |
This statement only holds true if you use the dishonest accounting tactic of counting only in
real dollars, and not, as any sane and intelligent person would, by percent of
Gross National Income. By this more reasonable standard, we are very near rock bottom among the other Western countries. Thanks to the generosity of our private citizens, we just barely beat out Italy. (To be fair, I don't think the IMF counts all the bombs we generously hand out to those nations who pledge fealty. We're surely number one at giving other people the developemental ability to kill each other.) We're not even close to the UN goal of 0.7 percent of GNI. I feel so generous.