Guardian of Good

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/29/syria-iraq

Does this remind you of anything possibly pertaining to Pakistan?

I am not an unpatriotic person, but I have never been this ashamed by the United (thanks to a great unifying McCain-Palin campaign) States of America. We seem to have an almost utter disregard for international mores and respect. I’m sick of the US military playing the “suppression of terrorism” card as a sort of indemnity that allows us to strut about a region like we own the place. This presumably stems from the infernal presumption that the US is a (even the) force of good (listen to some campaign rhetoric), which, of course, people as far back as Gilgamesh saw as the end for which we strive. If the US is the ultimate force of good, and Heaven is for the “good,” send me through the cycle again.

I know the US is waging war in Iraq, but that does not entitle the US to free reign in the environs of Iraq as well; it just doesn’t roll that way. Countries like Syria and Pakistan are taking the moral high ground, responding diplomatically to out-of-line American actions. I feel sullied that we are being morally instructed rightly by Russia and Iran; and trust me they are not the only displeased countries. What the US is doing is an extension of its careless and thoughtless foreign policy. If there was a more effective structure for equitable international justice, we would be getting serious sanctions; the least we can do is apologize (we won’t soon while Bush is wiping his ass the the remainder of his dirty Presidency).