{"id":17656,"date":"2012-11-21T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17656"},"modified":"2012-11-21T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:15:20","slug":"the-hypocrisy-of-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/the-hypocrisy-of-us-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chycho.com\/\">Chycho<\/a><\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>To emphasize the hypocrisy of US foreign policy in the following reply from President Obama, the word\u00a0<em>\u201cmissiles\u201d<\/em>\u00a0has been replaced by\u00a0<em>\u201cdrones\u201d<\/em>, the word\u00a0<em>\u201clanding\u201d<\/em>replaced by\u00a0<em>\u201cstriking\u201d<\/em>, and the word<em>\u201cIsrael(i)\u201d<\/em>\u00a0replaced by\u00a0<em>\u201cthe country\u2019s\u201d<\/em>. Obama\u2019s actual video reply follows the modified quote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s understand what the precipitating event here was that&#8217;s causing the current crisis, and that was an ever-escalating number of\u00a0<em>drones<\/em>\u00a0that were\u00a0<em>striking<\/em>, not just in\u00a0<em>the country\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0territory, but in areas that are populated, and there&#8217;s no country on Earth that would tolerate\u00a0<em>drones<\/em>\u00a0raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we are fully supportive of\u00a0<em>the country\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0right to defend itself from\u00a0<em>drones<\/em>\u00a0<em>striking<\/em>\u00a0people&#8217;s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians, and we will continue to support\u00a0<em>the country\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0right to defend itself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DX4xAYC0SCg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DX4xAYC0SCg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As for a non-hypocritical perspective on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chycho.blogspot.ca\/2012\/11\/regarding-israel-and-palestine-and-new.html\">the Israeli offensive in Gaza<\/a><\/strong>, please see the following interview on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/11\/20\/gaza_ceasefire_to_be_decided_in\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org\/staff\/phyllis\">Phyllis Bennis<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the Institute for Policy Studies based in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/11\/20\/gaza_ceasefire_to_be_decided_in\">Gaza Ceasefire to Be Decided in Cairo, But Will Washington Rein In Israeli Occupation, Blockade?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chycho\u00a0|\u00a0To emphasize the hypocrisy of US foreign policy in the following reply from President Obama, the word\u00a0\u201cmissiles\u201d\u00a0has been replaced by\u00a0\u201cdrones\u201d, the word\u00a0\u201clanding\u201dreplaced by\u00a0\u201cstriking\u201d, and the word\u201cIsrael(i)\u201d\u00a0replaced by\u00a0\u201cthe country\u2019s\u201d. Obama\u2019s actual video reply follows the modified quote. &#8220;Let&#8217;s understand what the precipitating event here was that&#8217;s causing the current crisis, and that was an ever-escalating number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}