Commentary: Hypocrisy Of U.S. As Human Rights Police

[Purveyor]

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The hegemony it has exercised, the inquisition by torture it has practised, and the profound racial inequalities all point to the sheer hypocrisy of the United States as a defender of human rights.

One day before the annual World Human Rights Day, a report detailing tortures and abuses conducted by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) against prisoners in Guantanamo and Afghanistan has provoked strident criticisms worldside.

The U.S. government loves to decorate itself as a vehement watchdog of human rights on the world stage. On too many occasions, U.S. troops, upholding their proud American flags, invaded countries which stood no chance against their cutting-edge weapons, just in order to shed "the light of civilization" to every corner of the world.

It does not even need a discerning eye to see through that camouflage and realize that hegemony, instead of defending human rights, is the U.S. operating code.

The Guantanamo Bay has become notorious for human rights violations since 2004, but neither former President George W. Bush nor President Barrack Obama has done anything to change the situation.

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[bemildred]

1. "Clean up your act or shutup." nt

[geek tragedy]

2. This is like irony squared, with the criticism of the US human rights record and charge of hypocrisy

being made by the Chinese.

Make that irony cubed, because the US overlooks a lot of abuses in China in order to keep economic ties stable.

[Purveyor]

5. So are you saying our rape and torture is Okie-Dokie because 'they' do it too?

[geek tragedy]

6. No. Are you saying China's abuses are ok? nt

[Purveyor]

7. No. I'm saying that the US have no moral authority to claim to be nor resemble

any form of "human rights police". Actually the US is quite the opposite.

China on the other hand has never claimed such a role nor would they.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. "Laws are for peons/chumps/suckers/everybody else."

[marmar]

4. K/R