Sunday, April 7, 2013

Are those included in the listings of the US actual enemies of humanity or plainly enemies of the US because she the said so.


Are those included in the listings of the US actual enemies of humanity or plainly enemies of the US because she the said so.


Vilification and demonization of their enemies are among the weapons of the fascist states. Nations who does not conform or align themselves the foreign policies of the fascist state are tagged as Axis of Evil, Outposts of Tyranny, and Axis of Terror.

Axis of evil is a term initially used by the former United States President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, and often repeated throughout his presidency, describing governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction. Iran, Iraq and North Korea were portrayed by George W. Bush during the State of the Union as building nuclear weapons. The Axis of Evil was used to pinpoint these common enemies of the United States and ally the country in support of the war on terror. The term has stirred controversy, as it is believed that Iraq did not actually possess any weapons of mass destruction at the time of this speech or anytime afterwards.

It is very strange that the state who introduced and still keep a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and actually used it more than once against another state in an act of war would accuse others who are suspected or have actual possesion of such weapons. The US first used it against Japan in WWII, used it in the recent Balkan Wars (in form of the so-called “impoverished” nuclear devices or bombs) and is still in a position to use it in any form against any other state it consider as “enemy”. Using the definition, it would be noted that since the US is keeping the largest arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, they are to be considered as the biggest terrorist state in the world.

Rogue state is a controversial term applied by some international theorists to states they consider threatening to the world's peace.  North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran and Libya. In theory, at least, to be classified as a rogue, a state had to commit four transgressions: pursue weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, severely abuse its own citizens, and stridently criticize the United States. While four of the listed rogue states met all these transgressions, Cuba, though still suspected for severely abusing its citizens and its strident criticism of the United States. As early as July 1985, President Reagan had asserted that "we are not going to tolerate … attacks from outlaw states by the strangest collection of misfits, loony tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich," but it fell to the Clinton administration to elaborate this concept. The US openly and covertly engaged in the subversion of foreign states. The Central Intelligence Agency supported a variety of overt actions designed to depose Saddam Hussein, while Congress approved the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 aimed at providing Iraqi opposition groups with increased financial assistance.  Several leading Republicans who would occupy high positions in the George W. Bush administration publicly urged President Clinton in February 1998 to recognize the Iraqi National Congress (INC) as the provisional government of Iraq.  Some of these critics, including Paul Wolfowitz and Robert Zoellick, hinted that U.S. ground forces might ultimately (and proved to be correct) be required to help the INC oust Saddam. In all of these anti-rogue efforts, however, Washington found it exceedingly difficult to persuade other nations (with the partial exception of Britain) to support its policies of ostracism and punishment

During the Korean war, the US Gen. Douglas McArthur has even recommended using nuclear bombs against North Korea and China, and annihilated 20% non-combatants in North Korea. This acts conforms to the first and second ‘transgressions’ mentioned above. Criticisms of the US foreign policies are non conformation by another state and does not constitue a crime against humanity, but genocide is.

Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush's nominee as secretary of state, has identified "outposts of tyranny" where the US must help bring freedom. They are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Burma and Belarus.
The term has been compared to President George W. Bush's phrase, "axis of evil," but the concepts are not identical. "Axis of evil" refers to countries alleged to be developing weapons of mass destruction as well as sponsoring terrorism, while "outposts of tyranny" refers to a country's internal political system. The State Department has not used the term "outposts of tyranny" officially.
There is an overlap with the given examples of "outposts of tyranny" and the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism, which also includes Cuba, Iran, and North Korea but in which Syria and Sudan appear rather than Burma, Belarus, and Zimbabwe. All of these countries are criticized in the annual U.S. human rights reports. It is very remarkable that the Philippines (a client state of the US and an avid copier of the US policies) was not included in the list. If at all, no critic of the Philippine regime could walk in any street in any city or village without fear of being ‘erased or salvaged’ by a death squad, or kidnapped and no to seen again, illegally arrested and tortured, as what happened to thousands of activists and critics of any reigning regime in the country.



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