President Donald Trump on Thursday night ordered an attack on the Syrian regime, following the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons.
What makes the Syria attack more interesting is the profoundly disconnected rant following the attack.
“ My fellow Americans, on Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many — even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror”
Mimicking the “Make America great again” blab is one side of the theorem.Wasting Millions of tax payer dollars amidst a 19 trillion dollar debt bugged economy is the other.
Aren’t there more important to things to be taken care of,already?
Apparently there is; and a lot of it.
The United States has signed but not yet ratified the most important international treaties that protect economic and social rights, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The treaty was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989 and became one of the most rapidly and widely adopted human-rights pacts. It sets standards for education, health care, social services and penal laws, and establishes the right of children to have a say in decisions that affect them. America signed it in 1995 but never ratified it. (By signing a treaty a country endorses its principles; ratification means committing to be legally bound by it.)
The bar for treaty ratification is set high in America: the president must send treaties to the Senate, where they require approval by a two-thirds majority, the same standard required to amend the Constitution. The child-rights convention has never made it to a vote. Although Presidents Clinton and Obama have supported ratification, opposition by Republicans in the Senate has made it clear that the treaty would not pass.
Most American laws are already consistent with the pact, but not all. A notable exception is that in America under-18s can be jailed for life without parole (until 2005, they could be sentenced to death). The treaty prohibits cruel and degrading punishment, so ratification might curb smacking. Although America has laws against child abuse, a third of states allow corporal punishment in schools and none bans it at home. America’s adoption of other human-rights treaties has helped to fill gaps in American law. Participation in the UN treaty on child soldiers, for instance, prompted America to abolish the deployment of under-18s in military operations.
The United States has the highest national income in the world as measured by GDP .
Yet, in comparison with other OECD countries, the United States has some of the worst health and other social indicators, including the highest rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality and teen pregnancy. There are also sharp gender and ethnic disparities, including in education achievements, health, salary levels, and poverty rates; in particular, black and Hispanic groups still trail whites in enjoying their full economic and social rights. Relatively low social spending suggests the government has not prioritized the realization of economic and social rights commensurate with the country’s immense wealth. The data and graphs in this fact sheet point to possible failures by the state to take all appropriate measures to guarantee the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including economic and social rights, to everyone in the United States. They are based largely on official U.S. government agency statistics. International comparisons are made with the latest available data from the World Bank and the OECD.
Women in the United States have the highest risk of dying in childbirth of any high-income OECD country.
The risk of american women dying due to complications from pregnancy or childbirth is also the highest among high-income OECD countries, despite the country’s resources. the risks are much lower in Japan and Germany.This raises questions about women’s access to appropriate health care services.
Pregnancy rates among U.S. teenagers are far higher than in comparable countries.
Teenage girls in the United States are more likely to become pregnant and give birth than teenage girls in any other high-income OECD country, and this rate has increased since 2005. This suggests a failure to ensure that teens have access to appropriate reproductive health services and information, including contraception .
Ethnic disparities in maternal mortality.
The United States has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality among OECD countries.However, dis-aggregated data show that black women have a much higher risk of maternal death than white or Hispanic women. the maternal mortality rate for black women was almost four times the rate for white women.
More than 20 percent of american children live in poverty.
Despite the fact that the United States has the world’s highest GDP. the rate of child poverty is far higher in the United States than in other OECD countries with comparable income levels. this suggests a failure to guarantee the rights of all children to a standard of living adequate for the child’s physical, mental and social development .
More infants die before reaching age one in the United States than in any other comparable country.
The number of infants who die in the United States before one year old is the highest among OECD countries (and equal to Slovakia). that more than twice as many African american infants die compared to white infants (cdc 2008) raises serious questions about the effectiveness of public policies to guarantee the equal right to health, without discrimination.
More Hispanic/ Latino and black people live in poverty even when working.
Around 10 percent of Hispanic/Latino and black workers live in poverty, compared with about five percent and four percent of white and Asian workers, respectively.The situation is worst for black working women, more than 11 percent of whom live below the poverty line (income less than $21,756 for a family of four ).This suggests that wages are too low to ensure an adequate standard of living.
It is time for others who are still undecided, and perhaps hoping for some dramatic change in our politics and governance, to take a hard look and foresee a ridiculously embarrassing defense budget;and then,the biggest disappointment of democracy is having a leader with self found greatness;a mockery of the constitution and ridiculing the mass.
