Obama, Nobel War Laureate

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Obama, Nobel War Laureate
El Espectador, Colombia
By Reinaldo Spitaletta
Translated By Tristan Foy
16 September 2013
Edited by Mary Young

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This emphatic expression is from one Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Argentinian Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, to another, the president of the United States. More than the interested position of Putin, the Russian, so that instead of bombings there is an inspection and the Syrians will hand over their chemical weapons, the letter the Argentinean sent to the American on Sept. 4 is more valuable and humane.

In the letter, where Pérez Esquivel recalls Martin Luther King's dream of brotherhood, it says that the motivation behind the American military invasion plans against Syria is not “the death of hundreds of Syrian children,” but actually the objective of Obama and his court is “Iran and holding back the realization of the Palestinian State.” This brings into question the old tactic of an empire functioning as the "global policeman" in the name of freedom, democracy and human rights.

History, recent and distant, shows how the U.S. has been the greatest violator of freedom, democracy and human rights, as well as the sovereignty of people. It comes back and plays out as a sort of hypocrisy, held up in large part by the West, around chemical weapons which, additionally, are produced precisely by superpowers like the USA. In the whole world it is the country which most uses and possesses such terrible weapons.

If its use is indeed abnormal, and even against civilians, it is not for the reasons of strength and the invasion of a sovereign country to resolve the ownership of such destructive devices. What moral authority can aid the United States to rise as a guardian when it has used these weapons to exterminate civilians and non-civilians? Perhaps it's been forgotten, for example, that the United States supported Saddam Hussein, when he was their ally, in using chemical weapons to destroy the Kurds and put down the Iranian revolution? That's what the Argentinian Nobel laureate recalled in his letter.