Ipso Facto: Re-gifting Democratic Consent.

Geo-political perspectives driven by some certain Anglo-American conglomerates on international law, may be an issue which inextricably deflates their grip on the moral high ground.

Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia is such a case, which the Bush led U.S Government was quite quick to rally support for such an audacious infringment. An infringment similar to their own escapade in Iraq.

The apparent abuse of international conventions, all began to slide down the slippery slope of faulty intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequently respect for international conventions began free-fall with the aid of U.S interpretations of the word 'imminent'. Such interpretations were the catalyst of the heightened global dislike for the unfulfilled objectives of WMDs. Invalid conclusions of that hunt for WMDs, intiated a suspicious contempt of those who profess to spread freedom and democracy.

Almost a year ago today in his second Inaugural Address, President Bush laid out a vision that now leads America into the world. "It is the policy of the United States," the President said, "to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." To achieve this bold mission, America needs equally bold diplomacy, a diplomacy that not only reports about the world as it is, but seeks to change the world itself. I and others have called this mission "transformational diplomacy." And today I want to explain what it is in principle and how we are advancing it in practice.

This documentary trailer titled “In the Shadow of the Palms” accurately display such a billegerent use of force, under the guise of freedom.

Whilst the western powers denigrate the bloodless coup of Fiji, their appalling silence in decrying such wanton abuses of international law, like Ethiopian Army's invasion of Somalia is apparently deafening. The British assault of a Basra police station is smiled upon because they had reportedly freed tortured prisoners.

While the reports of American and British soldiers torturing prisoners of their own in this report by the Scotsman, has highlighted a serious moral dichotomy.

Although U.S State Department press release reiterated a condemnation of the overthrow of a democratic elected Government of Fiji, a Niu Fm podcast of a New Zealand based Human Rights activist, voicing his approval on the general clean-up in the affairs of Fiji Government was recorded at an Auckland rally on Fiji and provided an ethical counter-point.

In condemning such an overthrow, the U.S State Department canceled military assistance programs with Fiji's Army. Such is the deplorable U.S State Department's over-reaction, which has also revealed an embarassing diplomatic shift, using the Potomac two-step when Fiji is compared with the Palestinian context of similar military assistance.

News reports by the Times of London, confirms the U.S weapons supply to Palestinian group Fatah. This assistance had sent shock waves of dismay throughout the minds of regional observers. Objectors view the military support as a perceived bias for an entity other than the duly elected Palestinian Government; while proponents view this as strengthening the office of the President Mahmoud Abas in this NPR news piece and podcast.

The Palestinian elected Government is filled by members of the Hamas party- recognized by the U.S State Department as a terrorist organization.

It has been said that, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. The recent of announcement of Israel resuming settlements in the West Bank, despite tedious brokered accords outlawing such construction, would be a such occassion to raise similar questions on terrorism and freedom fighting.

Despite Israel's provocating attempt to push the envelope of international terms and conditions, this was not a viable enough reason to register change with the US State Department, as reported by Yahoo news .

Indifference to international laws is not an effigy foreign to the U.S State Department. Failure is the poor orphan and success the rich son. Both success and failure have been demonstrated in Iraq by the U.S, sadly not in equal measures. As such, the political demagogues who supported the Iraq invasion have now embarrassingly flip-flopped in their positions and the question of how to get out of a quagmire is the 64 million question that, baffles most political experts.

Not all coups and Governments are judged the same in the eyes of America. Although U.S condemned the Fiji coup, it has not issued such a condemnation of the military takeover of Thailand and Pakistan.

Whilst Iran's objective of obtaining Nuclear Technology has been ridiculed by the International community, US nuclear deal with India upsets the natural law concept of 'equal carriage' and further underscores an application of double standards.

Although, Tranformational Dilomacy is a new direction which the Secretary of State had adopted in her speech in January 18^th 2006.

Tranformations in geo-politics that don't according to U.S play book have been discredited, alienated and riddiculed by the powerful media. While the blantant abuses of international law by the U.S is glorifed, highlighted and revelled. Thus revealing a position within the U.S Foreign Policy and the media's potrayal of it, as alarmingly absent of subjectivity, morality and logic.

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