Rename The Secretary Of State
The Secretary Of Hypocrisy
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken tweeted in
celebration of Pakistan’s preparations for “free
and fair elections” on Wednesday, a week after
it was revealed that the US pressured Pakistan
to oust its popular democratically elected prime
minister Imran Khan last year.
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US Secretary of State Tony Blinken
tweeted in celebration of Pakistan’s
preparations for “free and fair elections”
on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed
that the US pressured Pakistan to oust its
popular democratically elected prime
minister Imran Khan last year.
“Congratulations to new Pakistan Interim
Prime Minister @anwaar_kakar,”
tweeted Blinken. “As Pakistan prepares
for free and fair elections, in accordance
with its constitution and the rights to
freedom of speech and assembly, we will
continue to advance our shared commitment to
economic prosperity.”
An article published by The Intercept
last week titled “Secret
Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to
Remove Imran Khan” revealed evidence
that the US State Department which Blinken
heads had placed pressure on the Pakistani
government to remove Khan from office in
March of last year. A leaked document
reports that State Department official
Donald Lu issued blatant threats to
Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States
that “it will be tough going ahead” for
Pakistan if Khan wasn’t ousted but “all will
be forgiven” if he was, saying the US and
its European allies didn’t like the prime
minister’s “aggressively neutral position”
on the Ukraine war.
The following month Khan was ousted in a
no-confidence vote, and he now
sits in prison, officially barred from
politics for five years.
The authenticity of the document has been
begrudgingly confirmed by Pakistani
officials opposed to Khan, yet prior to its
publication by The Intercept the US State
Department had denied what was revealed by
its contents
on multiple occasions. Last month State
Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller
said unequivocally that “the United
States does not have a position on one
political candidate or party versus another
in Pakistan or any other country,” which is
plainly contradicted by the revelations in
the document.
Obviously if you’ve got officials from
the world’s most powerful, violent and
destructive government telling your country
“it will be tough going ahead” if its prime
minister is not removed from power but “all
will be forgiven” if he is, that’s brazen
interference in the democratic processes of
that nation. Yet here is the head of the
State Department babbling about the
wonderful “free and fair elections” in
Pakistan.
Earlier this month the State Department
put out another doozy on Twitter (or
whatever we’re calling it now), quoting
Blinken saying “Governments that violate
human rights are almost always the same ones
that flout other key parts of that
order — such as invading, coercing, and
threatening other countries, or breaking
trade rules.”
All of which the US government of course
does regularly.
Such glaring hypocrisy is standard for US
secretaries of state, because their job
entails continually using concepts like
democracy and human rights not as values
that they wish to promote, but as political
cudgels to be used against their enemies.
This was explained in stark detail in a
leaked 2017
State Department memo in which
warmongering swamp monster Brian Hook was
seen
explaining how the US government views
“human rights” to then-secretary of state
Rex Tillerson — a newcomer to the DC
underworld at the time. Hook told Tillerson
that human rights violations should be
forcefully criticized in America’s enemies,
and overlooked in nations that bow to the
dictates of Washington.
“One useful guideline for a realistic and
successful foreign policy is that allies
should be treated differently — and
better — than adversaries,” Hook wrote,
naming China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran
as examples of adversary nations who should
be aggressively criticized for human rights
violations, and naming Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
and the Philippines as examples of
US-aligned nations where human rights
violations should be overlooked.
The memo was labeled “SENSITIVE BUT
UNCLASSIFIED”, which is a good designation
for information about something that isn’t
really a secret in Washington but they’d
still definitely prefer people didn’t pay
much attention to.
Since we know this is the established
orthodoxy in the US State Department, it’s
no wonder that secretaries of state are
always speaking in ways that run directly
counter to the actions of their own
government. The US empire doesn’t care about
democracy or human rights, it cares about
power and control. Paying lip service to
democracy and human rights is just one of
the ways they manufacture the illusion of
moral authority while diplomatically
undermining the governments they don’t like.
For this reason it would perhaps be
better to refer to the State Department as
the Hypocrisy Department, and the secretary
of state the secretary of hypocrisy. Or
maybe the secretary of hypocritical
finger-wagging, if you want to get fancy
about things.
The State Department was originally meant
to be the counterpart to the War Department.
The War Department (later renamed the
Department of Defense to keep things from
being too obvious) was meant to focus on
war, and the State Department was meant to
focus on diplomacy and peace.
What ended up happening, as the US power
structure morphed into a globe-spanning
empire dependent on endless violence and
aggression, is that the State Department
wound up focusing more and more on
manufacturing interventionist narratives on
the world stage to gin up international
support for starvation sanctions, proxy wars
and war coalitions.
So in practice the US ended up with two
war departments: the Department of Defense
and the State Department. Which is why
you’ve seen the nation’s secretaries of
state becoming more and more jingoistic and
psychopathic, to the point where some sort
of antisocial personality disorder is almost
a job requirement for the position.
But that’s just what the US empire is at
this point in history: a giant,
planet-sprawling bully with a severe
personality disorder. The US empire has all
the personality characteristics of a
malignant narcissist — it sees people as
resources to exploit instead of as humans to
relate to, it communicates to manipulate and
control rather than to connect and
understand, and anyone who doesn’t center
its desires as a priority above all else
becomes its enemy.
Couldn’t ask for a better face to place
on that operation than Antony John Blinken.
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