Slander Slips Easily from a Slick Tongue

But Fools, to their peril, Fail to Comprehend the Power of Assembly that Knows Truth

“The United States has never believed in permanent enemies.  We want partners, not adversaries.  America knows that while anyone can make war, only the most courageous can choose peace,” U.S. President Donald Trump this week read from a prompter while standing before a world Assembly of nearly 200 nations.

“The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation.  We desire peace, cooperation, and mutual gain with all.…”

But then there's this indisputable truth.

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NOWN U. S. engagements in Violent Aggression Post-World War II Period

Second half of	20th century U.S. Wars
Korean War	(1950–1953)
Laotian Civil War	(1953–1975)
Lebanon Crisis	(1958)
Bay of Pigs Invasion	(1961) (Cuba)
Simba rebellion (Congo) Operation Dragon Rouge	(1964)
Vietnam War (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)	(1955–1964/1965–1973/ 1974–1975)
Communist insurgency in Thailand	(1965–1983)
Korean DMZ Conflict (Korean Demilitarized Zone)	(1966–1969)
Dominican Civil War (Dominican Republic)	(1965–1966)
Insurgency in Bolivia (1966–1967)	Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975)
War in South Zaire (1978)	Gulf of Sidra (Mediterranean, North coast of Libya) Encounter (1981)
Multinational Intervention in Lebanon	Invasion of Grenada
(1982–1984)	(1983)
Action in the Gulf of Sidra
(1986)
Bombing of Libya	Tanker War (Persian Gulf)
(1986)	(1987–1988)
Tobruk	Invasion of Panama
(Mediterranean Sea) encounter (1989)	(1989–1990)
Gulf War (Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel) (1990–1991)	Iraqi No-Fly Zone Enforcement Operations (1991–2003)
First U.S. Intervention in the Somali Civil War	Bosnian War
(1992–1995)	(Bosnia/Herzegovina Yugoslav Wars)
	(1992–1995)
Intervention in Haiti
(1994–1995)	Kosovo War (Yugoslav Wars)
	(1998–1999)
Operation Infinite Reach
(Sudan and Afghanistan)
(1998)
First Quarter of	21st-century U.S. wars
War in Afghanistan	(2001–present)
Iraq War	(2003–2011)
War in North-West Pakistan	(2004–present)
Second U.S. Intervention in the
Somali Civil War	(2007–present)
Operation Ocean Shield (Indian Ocean)	(2009–2016)
International intervention in Libya	(2011)
Uganda Operation Observant Compass	(2011–2017)
American-led intervention (again) in Iraq	(2014–present)
American-led intervention in Syria	(2014–present)
Yemeni Civil War	(2015–present)
American intervention in Libya
(2nd Libyan conflict)	(2015–present)

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“The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with over 170,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories.”

The U.S. President’s slanderous words in the same speech before the United Nations

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One of the greatest security threats facing peace-loving nations today is the repressive regime in Iran.  The regime’s record of death and destruction is well known to us all.  Not only is Iran the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism, but Iran’s leaders are fueling the tragic wars in both Syria and Yemen.”

The statement is false on its face. Also see U.S. post-WWII aggression.

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To stop Iran’s path to nuclear weapons and missiles, I withdrew the United States from the terrible Iran nuclear deal, which has very little time remaining, did not allow inspection of important sites, and did not cover ballistic missiles.”

This statement is also false as proven by repeated

IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) reports 

published before and during the Trump tenure.

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Following our withdrawal, we have implemented severe economic sanctions on the country.  Hoping to free itself from sanctions, the regime has escalated its violent and unprovoked aggression. In response to Iran’s recent attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, we just imposed the highest level of sanctions on Iran’s central bank and sovereign wealth fund.”

The only grain of true in this bit is the Trump imposition of sanctions.

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hese presidential nuggets should have been addressed to U.S. leadership, past and present government officials and their allies. 

All nations have a duty to act. 

No responsible government should subsidize… bloodlust. …

[L]eaders will have turned a proud nation into just another cautionary tale of what happens when a ruling class abandons its people and embarks on a crusade for personal power and riches.… 

[T]he world has listened to … rulers as they lash out at everyone else for the problems they alone have created. … 

[C]itizens deserve a government that cares about reducing poverty, ending corruption, and increasing jobs — not stealing their money to fund a massacre abroad and at home.… 

[I]t is time for … leaders to step forward and to stop threatening other countries, and focus on building up their own country. 

It is time for … leaders to finally put the … people first.” 

(My edits to suggest what should have been a lecture to U.S. officials, including to the reader) 

The charges of “anti-Semitism” and “Death to America” in the speech are just silly.

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ree speech is not the exclusive right “certain” persons and nations. And disagreement is not “anti-Semitism” or “racism” or “homophobia” or any of those easy-off-the-tongue epithet or claims to such.

“Hate” is another easy concept, a little word that is too subjective ever to be pinned down, defined or judged accurately.

As to the President’s “America’s interests”— every national leader would be expected to serve that  country’s interests. I am not sure, however, that U.S. politicians are interested in serving anything other than their own private/personal interests.

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he U.S. President at the dais before learned nations spewed his vitriol not only against Iran and its leaders but also, equally slanderously, against Venezuela and its elected leader. Said the U.S. President:

“The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people while Cuba plunders Venezuela’s oil wealth to sustain its own corrupt communist rule.”

Not only is Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros not a dictator, as he was duly elected (unlike the drug-lord-consorting nonentity put up by Canadian and U.S. officials to bring down the duly elected president); but the United States is without peer in its interminable, centuries-old plunder of nations’ resources

 — and at the point of bombs —

across two very big  continents,  Africa and Asia.

Not only is the U.S. itself not a “democracy” (but rather a plutocracy or oligarchy or kleptocracy, depending on the angle of view) and thus incapable of any messianic endowment of “democracy” on others; but U.S. leaders also have never given “humanitarian” (out of the goodness of their hearts) anything to anyone without demands, threats, bombs, do-as-I-say-or-else conditions.

If Venezuelans are “trapped in (a) nightmare” (as the U.S. president claims), it is due largely to U.S. interference in their affairs, provocation of conflict, imposition of crippling sanctions, and strangulation or outright assassination (as in Libya and other places) of their leaders — because they dared stand up for their country’s sovereignty, interests, culture, and independence.

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he U.S. president also struck a condescending blow against North Korea’s leaders, as if addressing children. Said he:

 “I have told Kim Jong Un what I truly believe: that, like Iran, his country is full of tremendous untapped potential, but that to realize that promise, North Korea must denuclearize.”

What about U.S. promise and potential?

His delusion as of many U.S. leaders is that

the U.S. has achieved perfection and thus needs no improvement.

But no national leader serving his country’s interests would willingly submit to U.S. aggression, volatility, glaring character flaws, and proven untrustworthiness.

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o say, as President Trump said before the UN General Assembly, that “we have pursued bold diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula.,” is another falsehood on its face. U.S. leadership in recent times has never engaged in true diplomacy. Violent aggression and verbal demands are direct opposites of and preclude diplomacy.

Against the People’s Republic of China, the U.S. President—who has never heard of, let alone read, a treaty or convention he has not broken or tried to break — reads condescendingly from his script:

“Not only has China declined to adopt promised reforms, it has embraced an economic model dependent on massive market barriers, heavy state subsidies, currency manipulation, product dumping, forced technology transfers, and the theft of intellectual property and also trade secrets on a grand scale.”

And on Hong Kong, where the U.S. is again interfering illegally, he read

“The world fully expects that the Chinese government will honor its binding treaty, made with the British and registered with the United Nations, in which China commits to protect Hong Kong’s freedom, legal system, and democratic ways of life. …”

Even before words are uttered or actions taken, what is thoroughly offensive is the manner in which the U.S. president (and, characteristically, a long line of U.S. leaders and officials) addresses other leaders — such as the Supreme Leader of North Korea (Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea), Kim Jong-un; the People’s Republic of China’s Party General Secretary and President  Xi Jinping, and presidents and officials of Persia (the Islamic Republic of Iran) and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — a manner displaying an arrogance, disrespect and incivility that no leader can or should accept, endure or tolerate.
 

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 certain humility is especially wise when considering the long, ancient history of cultures and peoples of Persia and the Orient; and the certainty that, given its present course, the young nation of the United States of America will have long self-destructed when these ancient cultures will be standing and thriving.

Sources

The White House “Remarks by President Trump to the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly” Issued on: September 25, 2019 United Nations Headquarters New York, New York https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-74th-session-united-nations-general-assembly/

Wikipedia

United States Military Deployments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments

List of Wars involving the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States

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