Time to question western propaganda

Anyone with a basic grasp of history should be asking a few simple questions.

How can Russian actions in Crimea possibly be a greater transgressions of international law than the Anglo-American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan or the American invasions of Haiti, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, to name a few of the dozens of nations attacked directly or destabilised since World War II?

On what basis does Barack Obama mention human rights when, every few days, the American security state selects its next victim to be murdered by drones? What respect does Washington have for sovereign rights, having built dozens of permanent military bases in Iraq — in fact all over the globe.

No meaningful legal, moral or philosophical inquiry is possible without analogy and application of a set of agreed-upon principles — the basis of human civilisation.

Simple questions based on simple facts can easily dismantle western propaganda. In matters of foreign policy, the western — in particular the American — political class, maintain an incredible discipline. They stay on message and know instinctively the permitted parameters of debate, the terms to subtly repeat and the contradictions that must be ignored.

Paul Doran

Monastery Walk

Clondalkin

Dublin 22