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It also ignores the most egregious human rights abuses of allies. While wrongfully censuring Assad, it's silent on brutal Bahraini state terror and similar practices in other repressive Arab League states.
The hypocrisy's stark, duplicitous, and abhorrent. So is lockstep scoundrel media support. Washington's imperium alone matters.
No wonder America makes more enemies than friends, and alliances build against it. It's the fate of all empires. They come. They grow. They overstretch and die. They all end in history's trash bin and texts recounting their rise and fall. It's just a matter of time.
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