Catastrophe of US imperialism

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http://www.herald.co.zw/catastrophe-of-us-imperialism/

Catastrophe of US imperialism
Bill Van Auken
January 20, 2014

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Far from a turn to peace and diplomacy, however, the shift from bombing Syria to negotiations emerged as part of US imperialism’s “pivot to Asia”, based on the strategic conception that defusing the confrontation with Iran would create more favourable conditions for prosecuting the conflict with US imperialism’s more essential global rival, China.

Yet Washington is hardly managing to execute its pivot neatly. It is finding it increasingly difficult to extricate itself from an unfolding catastrophe of its own making in the Middle East.

The US-backed war for regime-change in Syria, which has claimed the lives of some 130 000 people and forced nine million from their homes, has increasingly spilled across Syria’s borders into Lebanon, where assassinations, suicide bombings and armed clashes have become daily occurrences, and Iraq, which has been the scene of an armed standoff between the Iraqi army and local militias in the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. The primary responsibility — political and moral — for this bloodletting lies with US imperialism.

It has committed war crimes whose dimensions can be compared only to those carried out by the Third Reich in the Second World War.
Aggressive war — the principal charge levelled against Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials — is also the chief crime of the US government, from which so many other horrors have flowed.

[bemildred]

1. Yep, that says it all. nt