Sure, the West has all the big guns. It looks strong. Underneath, it’s committing suicide morally. It is hollowing out its institutions morally. As the hypocrisy of the West becomes more and more evident to the world’s peoples, the West will shrivel up. Its influence will wane. It will lose respect. It will die. Financial bankruptcy goes right along with moral bankruptcy, as do aggressive wars.
Several examples from today’s news: In a news report, we learn that NATO killed 11 imams and wounded 45 people in a boarding house. As usual, NATO says it was a command center and it’s looking into it. If NATO ever had any credibility as a legitimate defensive force, Yugoslavia and Libya should now have dispelled that image. NATO is a major western institution and it has gone into the moral toilet. The major powers are taking the UN down into the same cesspool. Meanwhile, the same article reports that the International Criminal Court is issuing a warrant for Gaddafi’s crimes against humanity in Libya! Who, may I ask, started this violent revolt? The ICC’s credibility is headed to the same destination. So are the high offices of U.S. justice. Today we have former Justice Stevens who assures us that killing bin Laden was justified. He knows. The Attorney General continues to make the same sounds. Also swimming in the same moral muck are Obama and his lawyers as they seek loopholes in the War Powers Resolution of 1973 as the 60 days they had to bomb Libya run out. This is a day in the life of the Empire, and only a portion of that day at that! Everything is prevarication, deception, glossing over, and disseminating false stories about so-called enemies while seeking control of another country.
