Having
backed a right-wing coup in the Ukraine and right-wing terror groups
disguised as “moderate rebels” in Syria, U.S. leaders now
confront rising right-wing terror at home. They duly condemn it, but
seem blind both to their own hypocrisy and to the domestic
reverberations of their cynical foreign policies.
by
Whitney Webb
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Though
rising tensions between the Trump administration and North Korea had
dominated headlines for much of the past week, the chaotic events in
Charlottesville swiftly replaced concerns about imminent nuclear war
with concerns about the white nationalist movement and other
associated groups.
On Saturday,
white nationalists and counter-protesters dramatically clashed within
the Virginia city, prompting a state of emergency to be declared
after a young woman was killed by a car that plowed into a group of
pedestrians. Since Saturday’s tragic and alarming events, a chorus
of U.S. politicians from both parties have expressed their outrage,
labeling the hit-and-run crash an act of domestic terrorism and
condemning white nationalists as unpatriotic and “enemies of
freedom.”
Among those
professing their disdain for Saturday’s events were numerous
senators, including Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Marco
Rubio (R-FL), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ).
They, along
with a host of other congressmen and former presidents, condemned the
white nationalists as un-American and against American values, with
some specifically labeling the car crash a terror attack. Other
notable political figures, such as former Secretary of State and 2016
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Barack
Obama, also condemned the attacks via social media.
While the
chorus of condemnation against Charlottesville was near-unanimous,
taken in a broader perspective, it seems that the outrage at and
disgust with right-wing racism and religious extremism expressed by
U.S. politicians is rather myopic, if not outright hypocritical.
Indeed, many of the U.S. congressmen who spoke out against the
activities of such groups in Charlottesville have supported – and
in many cases still support – similar or even worse groups abroad,
in countries such as Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela, among others.
Apparently,
such ideologies are condemnable only when they occur on U.S. soil.
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