Pushing Hard, With Broken Legs

The United States has expressed disappointment, disgust and (feigned?) surprise that Russia and China today vetoed a UN resolution calling for the downfall of Syria's murderous regime.

The United States has pushed that resolution from the beginning. But it pushes with broken legs.

Why? Because the U.S. itself has essentially adopted Russia and China's position hundreds of times, and has never apologized. Specifically, the U.S. has vetoed hundreds of U.N. resolutions calling for Israel to stop stealing land from and killing Palestinians. In each of these cases, the U.S. stood utterly alone in its veto, obstructing the entire world (unlike Russia and China which at least are a duo). There is only one explanation for the bizarre and sordid U.S. behavior in these cases, and that is the massive Israel lobby in the U.S.A.

What goes around comes around. The United States has allowed a deep, pervasive moral rot to overwhelm it thanks to its relentless military aid to Israel. The U.S. has lost all its moral standing in the world as a result of pandering to the Israel Lobby.

Yes, Syria's regime is awful. But the world is not unreasonably asking itself, is this resolution just yet another U.S. scheme to promote Israel, the same way invading Iraq was? Syria being, of course, along with the former Iraqi regime, an enemy of the Jewish state. Virtually every recent U.S. action in the Middle East, "humanitarian" or otherwise, has been an obvious gambit to either promote Israel's well-being, and/or to clumsily and unnecessarily expand American influence in the area (usually again goaded on by Israel). The skepticism of U.S. motives at the U.N. is deafening and it's understandable. Even nations that have cynical reasons for undermining U.S.-backed resolutions, now have a convenient pretext to do so.

So there is no reason for the United States to be surprised for today's result at the U.N. When the United States pushed this resolution, it pushed from the beginning with broken legs.