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Step 1 was his appearance and speech in Hanoi, Vietnam on May 24. In the course of delivering a speech calling for the peaceful resolution of maritime disputes, particularly in the South China Sea, Obama uttered perhaps one of the most glaringly hypocritical statements to come from the mouth of a U.S. President. Indeed, his statement was even more hypocritical than the general \u201cAmerica represents freedom and democracy\u201d claptrap. \u201cBig nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully,\u201d Obama said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, it must be noted that Obama made his statement in small country that was bullied by a big one decades earlier for over ten years with devastating results for the Vietnamese people and a nasty culture war back at home in the United States. The irony of traveling to Vietnam and telling the world that big countries shouldn\u2019t bully small ones may have been lost on Americans but, to many people across the world, history was not so easily forgotten.<\/p>\n Indeed, it may be irony for an American President to stand in Hanoi and criticize \u201cbullying\u201d small countries but it is absolute hypocrisy for him to do so at a time when the United States is known the world over for being the biggest bully on the planet. As Libya continues to burn in absolute chaos, Syria fights valiantly against proxy imperialism, Iraq continues to have its legs cut out from underneath it at every turn, and a trail of war and destruction is left all across the world, the fruit of the United States has been borne for all to see.<\/p>\n If the world operated according to reason and rationality, it would not be the United States lecturing other countries on the dangers of bullying, it would be Vietnam, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Nicaragua, and much of the Third World lecturing the United States. Unfortunately for Americans, however, empire does always tend to come home<\/a> eventually. When it does, an apathetic public will no doubt regret their lack of opposition to the war machine.<\/p>\n _________________________________<\/p>\n Brandon Turbeville \u2013 article archive here<\/a> \u2013 is the author of seven books, <\/em>Codex Alimentarius \u2014 The End of Health Freedom<\/a>, 7 Real Conspiracies<\/a>, Five Sense Solutions<\/a> and<\/em> Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1<\/a> and<\/em> volume 2<\/a>, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,<\/a> and<\/em> The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President<\/a>. Turbeville has published over 650 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com<\/a> Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n