{"id":43578,"date":"2019-02-06T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43578"},"modified":"2019-02-06T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:32:19","slug":"the-mother-of-all-bombs-u-s-foreign-policy%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43578","title":{"rendered":"The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/06\/the-mother-of-all-bombs-u-s-foreign-policy\/\">The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the horrific destruction left in the wake of World War II, the United Nations in its seminal and founding document, the Charter of the United Nations, set out to prevent future wars among member nations. The Charter\u2019s admonition against war was also voiced in the lessons learned from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals in its condemnation of war:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chapter_VII_of_the_United_Nations_Charter\">\u201cstarting or waging a war against a territorial integrity, political independence or sovereignty of a state, or violation of international treaties or agreements.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp; are crimes against peace&nbsp; and \u201cmakes all war crimes possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The few and the wealthy of many nations are no longer constrained by rules that categorize civilized and enlightened behavior toward other nations such as Venezuela and Iran. They\u2019ve had many nations in their crosshairs and have met with much \u201csuccess.\u201d Their attacks against Venezuela\u2019s sovereignty are the final nail in the coffin of the endless wars, and the preparation for war, that are now all the rage among the sycophants of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse\">Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse<\/a>. Venezuela is absolutely no threat to the U.S., and therefore, the U.N. Charter prohibits the kinds of dangerous and lethal idiocy that the Trump administration is now orchestrating against Venezuela. Readers need to consider that presidents are viewed in a positive light when they are seen as acting in a presidential manner, i.e., threaten or incite war against other nations. Recall the popularity of the newly elected Trump when he ordered the use of the mother of all bombs against Afghanistan. The bipartisan talking heads in the U.S. loved that theatre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan\">\u201cTrump Drops The Mother Of All Bombs On Afghanistan,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<em>New Yorke<\/em>r, April 14, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even billionaire Michael Bloomberg got in on the act of Venezuela bashing in his attacks against mild reformers of the political system like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy Following the horrific destruction left in the wake of World War II, the United Nations in its seminal and founding document, the Charter of the United Nations, set out to prevent future wars among member nations. The Charter\u2019s admonition against war was also voiced in the lessons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,24321,1343,826,1174,24322,862],"class_list":["post-43578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-howard-lisnoff","tag-regime-change","tag-united-nations","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-venezuela-iran","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43579,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578\/revisions\/43579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}