American Contradiction

By Khalil Ahmad

LAHORE, Pakistan ― America's wonderful message and example of economic and political freedom has been undermined by its president and politicians. By turning their backs on their founding principles, they have turned their backs on those struggling throughout the world to gain small degrees of those freedoms.

So when Russia invaded Georgia this month in a ``peace enforcement operation,'' America's protests about invading weaker nations that present no threat rang a bit hollow after five years of occupation in Iraq.