Wednesday 13 October 2010

The USA has NO international legitimacy

Recently Mrs.Hillary Rodham Clinton has been on a visit to the Republic of Serbia, where she tried the persuade the locals to let Kosovo secede. Now I am not so sure about recognizing the independence of Kosovo. Secession lies at the core of my belief system and I think should always be possible, but democratic secession seems somewhat off the mark. What about all the Serbs in Kosovo who would gladly remain part of Serbia? This subject, however, is nearly impossible to resolve therefore I will not address it. I will just point out an important observation - usually the smaller the state the less oppressive the government and the bigger the economic growth. The key issue here is American involvement. What is Mrs.Clinton doing in Serbia? Why is she lobbying for something which is clearly against her own values? America is an empire which prides itself in creating client states all over the world, such as the two most recent ones in Afghanistan and Iraq. If they cannot themselves stop expansion, how can they have the nerve to ask others to do the opposite of expansion - divide their country? Secession is, of course, a supreme American ideal. The United States were created by a number of secessionists known collectively as 'The Founding Fathers'. The Declaration of Independence is, in essence, a declaration of secession from the British Empire. By now though, the tables are turned. It is America that is the empire. The attitude of the Americans changed after the Civil War (the name given by Union propagandists to the War of Southern Secession). So how can a country which itself violently suppressed secessionists and which now attacks foreign countries in aggressive wars have any legitimacy in advising in situations such as Kosovo? To illustrate this change of attitudes from peaceful secessionist to violent statist nationalism let me show two quotes from American history. Both are considered hugely important and influential in American thought and their validity cannot be denied.
Firstly something American children are forced to blindly recite in public schools everyday: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Does 'indivisible' imply a positive attitude toward secession as a principle and right?

The second quote is as self-explanatory as the first, by arguably America's greatest Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin: "Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

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