Thread: Hillary to Council on Foreign Relations: Unilateralism Lite

Hillary to CFR: Unilateralism Lite

Webster G. Tarpley
September 21, 2010
Video at the Link: Clinton spewing rhetoric, arrogance and hypocrisy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-4SaYWX8U

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s address to Wall Street bigwigs of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on the eve of this year’s session of the United Nations General Assembly documents the startling degree to which the mental processes of the US ruling elite have become disconnected from world reality. Hillary’s Leitmotiv in this speech was a constant harping on the reality and imperative necessity of US world leadership, which she claimed had opened the immediate perspective for a “New American Momentâ€

Clinton spewing rhetoric, arrogance and hypocrisy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-4SaYWX8U

September 08, 2010

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke today on the Obama administration's vision of American global leadership in the 21st century. She said that the US has the reach, resources and resolve to mobilize in order to solve global problems and that the world counts on the US to do so. Citing international sanctions on Iran and the US's reset with Russia she argues that the US model of global leadership is producing results. But is it also producing a renewal of American exceptionalism? RT contributor Webster Tarpley says the speech is a systematic attempt to deny reality, arguing that the US model has not been successful. He said the speech was unilateralism in disguise. "It's a rhetoric that obviously grates very much because of the arrogance, the complacency, the hypocrisy, the double standard," adds Tarpley.