Posted on 04/09/2017 8:10:43 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
NEW YORK World leaders met at the United Nations today to beg the United States to use military force to stem the ever-growing humanitarian disaster in Syria, knowing full well they will then turn around and blame the US shortly thereafter.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said, We call upon the worlds greatest nation the United States to help bring peace to this terrible civil war, because, fuck it, none of us want to.
And the best part is, when this whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket which, quite frankly, happens almost every time you intervene in a multi-sided civil war in a God-forsaken third-world country none of us are responsible for it! Ki-Moon added.
The Blame America First policy is a time-honored tradition in international relations, dating back to the outrage over the US Air Forces targeted bombing campaign against the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, followed by consternation over Americas idleness while the same Khmer Rouge murdered millions of their own countrymen.
Its pretty shameful, but hey, it got me a Pulitzer prize, said Sydney Schanberg, whose two-faced coverage of the war in Cambodia in the New York Times inspired the Oscar-winning film, The Killing Fields.
Amateurs tend to blame America first and then theyre done with it, said anti-war MIT Professor Noam Chomsky. Just this past week, Voxs Amanda Taub blamed the U.S. for the entire Syrian Civil War instead of blaming, well, the Syrians themselves.
But thats the type of Blame America First coverage that gets you a few thousand clicks at best, Chomsky continued. If you really want Oscars, Pulitzers, and charity donations, you have to sucker the US into intervening, then blame America!
Just look at Somalia: Send the U.S. military to help deal with a famine, then, boom! A firefight, a downed Black Hawk helicopter, and before you know it, a blockbuster movie from Michael Bay! he concluded.
Schanberg pointed to the fact the Blame America First strategy hasnt always mired America in pointless tribal conflicts.
We thought we had a real winner with the whole Stop Kony campaign, and even the whole Bring Back Our Girls thing. But the US just responded with a whole bunch of Twitter hashtags, Schanberg said.
Which just goes to show you, for Obama, black lives just dont matter, I guess.
British Labour Party candidate Jeremy Corbyn had already prepared a statement denouncing U.S. actions should it, indeed, be suckered into sending military forces to resolve the Syrian refugee crisis.
The U.S. has flagrantly placed its flag all throughout the world: invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Corbyn said. Just who do they think they are? Us?
Sounds just like Black Lives Matter. They hate the cops until they don’t show up then they bitch at the cops for not showing up in time. If the cops do arrive promptly, they bitch about the amount of force used.
British Labour Party candidate Jeremy Corbyn had already prepared a statement denouncing U.S. actions should it, indeed, be suckered into sending military forces to resolve the Syrian refugee crisis.
The U.S. has flagrantly placed its flag all throughout the world: invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Corbyn said. Just who do they think they are? Us?”
Har har har
British humor
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