ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY CONDEMNS U.S. HEGEMONIC FOREIGN POLICY

The BBC reports today on criticism by the Archbishop of Canterbury about hegemonic and destructive U.S. foreign policy.

"Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has launched a stinging attack on US policy, comparing it unfavourably with the British Empire . . . ."

"Dr Williams said the US, as the only "global hegemonic power", was trying to accumulate influence and control, rather than territory. But he said: "That is not working," describing the result as "the worst of all worlds".

"He told the magazine the US had lost the moral high ground since the 11 September attacks and needed to take steps including "generous aid" to "the societies that have been ravaged", a "check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories" and a "demilitarisation" of its presence in them in order to recover.

"The US believed that in Iraq it could then leave others to "put it back together", he said."

The Archbishop expresses what any thinking person sees and knows: the United States establishes military bases in any country that allows it, thinks it can solve all problems through military force, and thinks it itself is the greatest and all-knowing country in the world in spite of evidence to the contrary.

This "American exceptionalism" allows the U.S. and government officials to commit the most outrageous violations of human rights, engage in torture and other crimes against individual rights, bomb countries it deems "enemies," and throughout all, encourage its citizens to think that the U.S. is the sole beacon of democracy and freedom