While calculated US response to President Assad’s constant bombing of hospitals and use of chemical weapons against his own civilians may be justified, however it is seen as judgemental and West’s holier than thou attitude may cause concern, as West is acting as self-appointed judge and jury of the free world, recreating cold war atmosphere. It may pose threat to independent nations who may not share West’s ideology. No wonder some countries like North Korea and Iran would like to develop their own nuclear arsenal as a protection against West’s aggression.
Unilateral action by hierarchical West against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, bypassing UN may not install much faith in West’s ability to be neutral, as some countries with even worse human right records enjoy West’s patronage, as long as they remain West’s pupate. These client states include Algeria and Egypt where democracy was brutally supressed, freely elected governments overthrown by army with tacit support from the West. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and many more have no democracy at all while China who has brutally occupied and ethnically cleansed Tibet enjoys preferential treatment.
Dalai Lama, highly intellectual and articulate person, in the same league as Gandhi, Mandela, Bishop Tutu and Martin Luther King would be hanged if he sets foot in his beloved Tibet. Since the demise of Soviet Union, US is the sole super-power but it is only question of time before belligerent China would rule the world with iron feast.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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