Recently Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State, made a speech proclaiming that US foreign policy will be driven by the question of LGBT rights — “Gay Rights are Human Rights; Human Rights are Gay Rights!”
Both the liberal media and LGBT organizations are hailing this as a step forward. Indeed it is, but it’s not a ‘free pass’ by any means.
Hilary Clinton is a capitalist politician and her ‘brave speech’ to the UN must be seen in the light of the imperialist foreign policy of the US.
Just as ‘born-again’ Jimmy Carter raised the banner of ‘religious freedom’ in support of the clerical-reactionary Solidarność to bring down the Jaruszelski government in Poland, and Ronnie Rayguns used the cloak of ‘national sovereignty’ in backing the misogynistic primitivists of the mujahedin (spiritual progenitors of the Taliban in Afghanistan) to weaken the USSR, so Clinton’s support of LGBT rights is aimed fairly and squarely at the US’ latest bête noire, Iran — another oil-rich country where, coincidentally, homophobia is rampant.
I guess in the fishbowl that is the US, the destruction of a nation of 70 million people, whose history stretches back some four thousand years, doesn’t really matter. Yet it should, especially when Obama is letting homophobic god-botherers have free rein in ‘the Homeland.’
Historical Note: Many members of the British ruling class were ‘carpet-munchers and leap-froggers’ (or both) or ‘cross-dressers’ or “freaks born into the wrong bodies,” but this didn’t stop them supporting Hitler — even when the Nazis were shoving LGBT folks into gas-chambers.
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