The Bush administration has issued a strong warning to Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah regarding a reported plan to topple the government of Lebanon:
The White House statement warned, “Any attempt to destabilize Lebanon’s
democratically elected government through such tactics as manufactured
demonstrations and violence, or by physically threatening its leaders,
would, at the very least, be a clear violation of Lebanon’s
sovereignty.”
How can the government of the United States, the government who most recently invaded a sovereign nation and removed its leader from power, have the moral justification to denounce Iran and Syria for plotting to do the same? You can argue that, in this case, the government of Lebanon was democratically elected, whereas Saddam Hussein was a dictator and a tyrant. You could argue that the people of Iraq were oppressed, or that the threat of WMD was real and not a hacked together justification of an invasion. But no matter how you look at it, the United States invaded a sovereign nation and toppled its government.
Sorry, but the US has no right to denounce Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah for doing what we did ourselves (and such a poor job of it at that). The warning is meaningless and carries no weight. The US has lost any moral authority and credibility on the world stage that we might once have had.
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