USA is supposed to be the land of opportunity. Most of the scientific research in past half century have come from there. They have one of the oldest functioning democracy in the world. But there is another side of this story, which will be clear if you read these two news items and think of the background little bit-
First one is about Palestine which fear loss of aid from USAID. Reason because they dared to ask for freedom and equality. They tried to go to UN.
Second one is about the intention of US led west to invade or support a rebellion, ostensibly to help the people to get rid of their president. But Russia and China plays spoil sport this time.
Now if I say that it is all about oil, then there will be nothing new so many people are saying it for all the wars that USA has fought in middle east. Of course oil is one of the factors, Syria has got the oil and Palestine has not. But when you say just oil next question that come to mind is why USA was giving aid to Palestine although now it seems to oppose their right to equality and freedom? Now if you go through time article you will find, "The Palestinians have received about $500 million a year from the U.S. alone in recent years, including tens of millions of dollars for training the Palestinian security services. The partial suspension of aid by Congress mainly affects development and infrastructure programs being supervised by USAID but not the support for the security services." So it mean only development aid is to be stopped and not the aid for so called security services. Now what is the function of security services? Simple, they have to maintain law and order in area. To put it bluntly they have to kill or detain those Palestinians who are protesting against Israel. And although Israel is exploiting all the resources of Palestine, it can not sent it boys in Palestinian streets because that mean they will be attached. So it is damn good trick of controlling the enemy by bleeding enemy itself. You will say only wow!!!!!!!! what a tactful thinking and planning. And as said in earlier they will stop only funds mean for development and not for security, obviously because that security is more for Israel friend than for Palestine beggar (the way USA treat Palestine).
Lets take the case of Syria now. It is a country which has shown steady growth in-spite of so called dictatorship (as if other friends of USA are democracy in middle east). It has not towed US line on so many occasion. It has done the sin of independent policy making. Even though its oil reserves are not that much but it has shown a steady and stable growth. All that worries USA. While all its puppets have shown signs of discomfort these people showed no such sign. Egypt and Tunisia fell to US's surprise and Libya proved tough nut to crack even after invasion. SO it wanted to play the game through UN mandate, which did not come this time. This time China and Russia showed some maturity. Last time (in case of Libya), they abstained but this time they stood up to occasion.
The US ambassador, Susan Rice, said: "The courageous people of Syria can now clearly see who on this council supports their yearning for liberty and human rights, and who does not." They actually know what is USA or at least world knows. Courageous people of Iraq will tell how their mighty economy sunk with you and how they suffered because of you. Why do not America think of Somalia, Congo etc. They need real help.
World has changed a lot and it is changing faster. While just six months ago USA could do same thing to Libya it could not do it with Syria. Economics equations have changed a lot in six months. Economically USA is much more shaky than it was six months ago. Its credit rating has been degraded, economy continues to stagger, debt is increasing and its own people are turning against military-industrial-financial complex. Citizens are turning in wall street. these are the sign of change.
These things have happened before but this time it is different. there was no alternative when it happened earlier but today there is alternative in rising nations of the east (India and China). There was Europe which was more or less dependent on US itself, now even that Europe although aged, but stand on its feet much more respectfully than USA.
Times are changing and it will be no surprise that if within 10-15 years, same USA which have started so many turmoils in the modern world would be in chaos. Then may be there will be rebirth of this country but for now sun is setting and past is catching up. Once land of opportunity (because they hunted down natives) is now fully suckled up by opportunist suckers. World is awaking.
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