To Paraphrase Chompsky

So, today we got the duo of righteousness The Pres and Madame Clinton) giving their wisdom, veiled threats, and advice to South East Asia and to the Middle East, especially the Palestinians.

So, firstly, the easy one, other countries MUST do better in the human rights department if they want any favors from us. Hard to say "no" to that, Massa. No Cambodian would probably be wise to ask Obama about our little genocide with the Native Peoples here, or that thing about slavery or most recently, apartheid, or even more recently our prison population. Someone needs to say , "Yes, Obama and Clinton, human rights are a great idea, but you go first."

So, looking at handsome Obama and his sidekick, Hillary, once again talking into the cameras of the world with sincere clear eyes and hearing them say, actually SAY "We will not tolerate and completely condemn any use of force against civilian populations." Now, I understand that we don't like to think of ourselves as one of the worst offenders in all of history on the entire planet, but I assure you dear reader that the civilian populations of Southeast Asia still remember carpet bombing, chemical warfare, scorched earth policy. I am certain that a lot of people around the globe remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I would bet that recent victims of drone strikes all over the Middle East have a different picture of our righteous stance. The people of Iraq who were killed by the number???(we don't count them) by depleted uranium bombs and by cluster bombs have a different picture. And those Contras? You get my drift.

So I will say that they have to be grandstanding to us. Amazing. And the Chompsky paraphrase is that most of the world would die laughing at our absurdity if it wasn't so terrifying. Apologies, Noam, but I love the image...not of the dying, of the laughing.