{"id":27666,"date":"2013-02-12T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=27666"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:16:26","slug":"27666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/27666\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US Senator Accuses USA Of Playing \u201cPoliceman Of The World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Senator Mike Gravel has criticized the US government, accusing \u00a0them of playing\u00a0\u201cpoliceman of the world\u201d through the use of killer drones.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Press TV, he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you have got to do is just to travel around the world and you realize the amount of hatred that Americans are incurring as a result of wantonly feeling that we\u2019re the policeman of the world and we can go kill, subjugate and intimidate anybody in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe use of drones and this change of morality that the American leadership has experienced is the change of morality that we experienced with the use of atomic bombs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest problem for the United States that we have ever had because we go around the world killing people arbitrarily – I say arbitrarily because all you have to do is to have some bureaucrats in government make the charge and that person\u2019s life is forfeit.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are going to find that the back draft on what we\u2019re doing is going to create more terror, put more Americans at risk than if we paid attention to our own defense, rather than being around the world with our 700 plus bases, that we feel threatened by people who dislike us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then urged the US to:<\/p>\n

\u201c”Withdraw from these parts of the world and let these people and these various countries address and solve their own problems, rather than thinking that we can intimidate and kill them into submission to our will as the American empire.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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