Morally, What Does the US Stand For?

Dambisa Moyo |is calling for U.S. intervention in Nigeria, which I have a problem with (SEE: Why I Do Not Plan to Head to Nigeria to #BringBackOurGirls), but she does seem to get what the Empire is really all about:

It is naïve to ignore the mounting evidence that, beyond considering its own strategic and national self-interest, the United States does not have an operating philosophy when it comes to defending human rights. Its decision to remain silent after Egypt’s democratically elected President was overthrown in a coup last year, and its long standing engagement with countries like Saudi Arabia whose cultural ethos/philosophy , in many respects, runs counter to American beliefs, underscore the schism between what America claims to stand for and what it actually does in practice.

Indeed, these choices are a far cry from America, the brand – the moral torchbearer and defender of human rights, of fairness and justice, and above all, of what is good and decent. That was the America I was taught to believe in when I, myself, was a young girl in boarding school in Africa. But it is not the one I recognize today

And it must be made clear that the U.S. operates for the strategic, self-interest of the U.S. elites and not for the majority of the people in the U.S..