Iran calls to expel Israel from UN after strike on Syria
This is the title to an article from VOA news dated 11/11/24 re-posted from AFP. It is about a strike in Syria. It would be nice for several countries to be expelled including Iran and Syria but it does highlight a point that people have tried to make before. That is the idea that one country or another claims the "right" to go into any other country and conduct military strikes wherever they suspect people who have been attacking them might be. Other countries around the world have long questioned why this is OK for some but not for others.
In other words if the US had militia groups living here in Miami who were doing command/funding for attacks in Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador etc. then by the reasoning allowed in the Middle East it would have been perfectly acceptable for those countries to attack buildings in Miami thought to house such operations. No squabbling from the US allowed. Sauce for the goose and the gander.
But we know that would never be allowed. Because it's us rather than someone else. The idea that a country has carte blanche to conduct airstrikes anywhere in the world in any country against people suspected of being in terror groups is not something that's OK when one country does it but not another. That is what has troubled so many of the member nations in the UN about allowing any and all attacks simply on one countries "claims". The notion that because it is claimed that makes it a fact is also on shaky ground because if that justification method holds then it can be turned around and the ones using it can be on the receiving end.
The whole thing becomes nothing less than an international open season on each other simply by making claims and then exercising the "right" that has become an allowed precedent. As with so much of many countries foreign policy since WW2 it has become completely a matter of "do as we say, not as we do", "anything is OK for me but not for you" etc. That is hardly some moral high ground to lecture to other countries or supposedly cajole them about "the actions of civilized modern nations" and insisting about resolving problems by international cooperation.
How many countries have seen the way of the powerful countries when a weaker country doesn't submit to their demands? Do we pretend we don't try to uproot and defeat their leaders so that we will get the trade/military agreements, for example, we want? Do we pretend we don't use our Intelligence apparatus to destabilize? Do we pretend we don't use and enable "off the books groups" to do some of these things?
It won't change because I or others bring it up but at least we should drop the BS about it and just call it for what it is. Own it. The powerful claim a right to do things and let their friends do things that they deny to others. There it is all in that statement. Hypocrisy rules the day in the supposedly "developed" nations.
https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-calls-to-expel-israel-from-un-after-strike-on-syria-/7860263.html
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