USA Today: Hypocrisy is a weapon U.S. doesn't need in arsenal

[tuvor]

Simply put, the Bush administration wants to keep Iran and North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons. The two nations are the remaining legs - Iraq under Saddam Hussein was the other - of what President Bush famously labeled the "axis of evil."

But when it comes to nuclear non-proliferation, the effort to keep these and other nations from possessing such weapons is complicated by a U.S. penchant for applying malleable principles.

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Such preferential treatment on the world stage doesn't go unnoticed. Though certainly the United States will use its economic, political and even military leverage to protect its interests worldwide, such actions can carry a strong scent of hypocrisy. Israel gets one set of rules, while Iraq - and now Iran - must live by another.

If the United States dealt with countries as equals, rather than playing favorites - especially in the Middle East - we'd have more credibility in negotiating our way out of these crises. Or just maybe we'd find ourselves with fewer fires to put out in the first place.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/hypocrisyisaweaponusdoesntneedinarsenal

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. "If the United States dealt with countries as equals" - dream on . . .

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Remember "Animal Farm"

"some are created more equal than others"

Then there's this "Manifest Destiny" thing

and the "Project for the New American Century" (PNAC)

and it is only about the USA

NOT the rest of the world

well,

except the PNACers goal and will to exploit the rest of the World for their own interests

everyone else be dammed

"collateral damage" comes to mind

(sigh)