to the sublime.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Cuba
shouldn't be allowed to rejoin the Organization of American States
until it makes political reforms, releases political prisoners and
respects human rights.
This is not meant to simply point out the obvious hypocrisy. This is meant to absolutely mock the ridiculousness of the United States lecturing a country on human rights violations.
... Other
prisoners include a farmer who had put mines on his land to kill his
neighbour, with who he had a long-standing family dispute, and an
Afghan who had bombs in his house to fish in the river. They were
people like Dilawar, a taxi driver detained in 2002 who had nothing to
do with the Taleban and who died after four days of beatings from US
soldiers.
Yeah, Hillary. Other countries will surely take your comments to heart. Right after following the Somalian model of constitutional government.
I believe the U.S. will the last to realize it, but the vast majority of the world doesn't give a damn what they think about human rights violations. Certainly not as long as the previous head of state and admitted war criminal walks free.
So, to those in the U.S. government and media worried about human rights violations abroad I suggest you focus on cleaning up your own house and shut the hell up.
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