US Hipocracy Towards Bahrain

Horhey · Apr 26, 2012

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Accross the spectrum, Dictators who follow Washington's orders are often given the label "moderate" even if their murdering and torturing their own citizens. As Middle East specialist, Stephen Zunes puts it:

The term [moderate] is used primarily in reference to governments that have been friendly to the United States and its foreign policy goals in the Middle East; it has also been used in reference to governments that have been relatively less hostile towards Israel and U.S.-led peace initiatives. In either case, there is virtually no correlation between this label and a given governments record on democracy and human rights.
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Salon: Obama gives Bahrain a pass on crackdown

The State Department declines to even send a representative to a hearing on human rights in the Gulf kingdom

The State Department today declined to even send a representative to a congressional commission's hearing on human rights in Bahrain, underscoring how the U.S. continues to give the Gulf kingdom a pass on human rights abuses.

"We invited Undersecretary [William] Burns and Assistant Secretary [Jeffrey] Feltman and they weren't able to attend," Ari Levin, a fellow at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, tells me. "We reached out through the congressional liaison to come up with an alternate, and State said due to scheduling conflicts, no one could attend."

So the United States State Department couldn't find a single person free on a Friday morning to talk about the dire situation in Bahrain. From the human rights commission's website:

As has been widely noted, the U.S. has two big reasons for ignoring what's going on in Bahrain: first, the kingdom hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet; and second, the U.S. and its ally Saudi Arabia are worried about growing Iranian -- and Shiite -- influence in the region. The Bahraini protesters are Shiites and the ruling monarchy is Sunni.

Tens of protesters in Bahrain have been killed since February, and hundreds more injured and detained. Lately, we've seen Bahrain bulldoze Shiite mosques and prosecute medics for having treated protesters.

Ironically, the deep American ties to Bahrain mean that the administration has some real leverage here -- in contrast to, say, the situation in Syria. But there's no sign the leverage is being used.

The State Department has not responded to requests for comment.

Marian Wang at ProPublica has more on the administration's tepid stance toward any discussion of human rights in Bahrain.
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raymondo · Apr 26, 2012

What is wrong with the Biryani?
Their King gives them extra privileges and they still try to ruin our F1 .
America had too much democracy , too quickly .Look what happened to that short term Empire , now starting to implode
Stop being short sighted and selfish .
Is that what you want for the Biryani ?

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