Monday, January 24, 2011

Op-ed: Obama Has Nothing to Teach China’s Hu

“President Obama ... gently but pointedly prodded China to make progress on human rights,” reports the New York Times.

The irony should not escape us. The head of the U.S. empire, which for years has committed a variety of atrocities abroad and widespread surveillance at home, lectured President Hu Jintao of China about human rights. You can’t make this stuff up!

The full op-ed is here.

2 comments:

Kevin Carson said...

Oh, I don't know. Obama could probably teach Hu something about chutzpah -- after all, how many Nobel Prizes has Hu received for killing people?

Sheldon Richman said...

Can't argue with that!