America’s Misunderstood Love For Human Rights || Satire

Syed Abdul Ahad Wasim
3 min readMar 11, 2021

America has always spoken for the rights of people. Nowadays, it's visibly worried for the rights of Uighurs in China. What most people utterly fail to understand is that it is only a sheer coincidence of history that the people whose rights America decides to talk about and strive for are often found in the realm of America's enemies.

During the 19th century, America's heart was seized with angst for all such states in Western Hemisphere that were under the control of the oppressive Europeans. In 1823, President Monroe, deciding that somebody had to man up, proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine which essentially stated that America would no longer allow Europeans to interfere in Americas for it could not see the freedom and liberties of people living on the Western bank of the Atlantic quashed under the yoke of extractive and oppressive institutions of the Old World. Some people misread Monroe Doctrine and point towards the history that has unfolded since its proclamation to make an argument that what Americans really meant through Monroe Doctrine was that only America had the right to do what it was denying Europeans from doing i.e. being extractive and oppressive. Such people are clearly misled, and cannot understand the pain that President Monroe and later Theodore Roosevelt (who added a Corollary to Monroe Doctrine) felt for the people of Central and South America.

Around mid 20th century, America entered the Cold War only with one-line agenda: to restore and uphold the human rights of all those found within 1000 miles of Moscow. Again, some mischievous people try to distort and belittle America's true aims in fighting Cold War - be it in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, or space - by forging a baseless thesis that America fought for political domination, its economic interests, and because it detested Karl M. Nothing can be a bigger distortion of history. As the real history shows: as soon as Soviet Union quit Berlin and reinstated the human rights of Eastern Europeans, America declared Cold War to be over! Liberating the people and upholding the rights of those trapped in Communist hell was the only objective of America. However, the price America had to pay was 45 years of anxiety-stricken sleepless nights.

On the eve of December 1991, America felt that the "end of history" was finally in sight and that freedom loving neo-liberals had won. But this moment of triumph only proved to be an interlude, cut short by the rise of another enemy of human rights and freedom - China - and by the resurgence of the proxy of devil - Russia. Today, America's heart is once again experiencing indescribable pain for the rights and liberties of anyone found near China or the seas of China — from Singapore to Mongolia and from Xinjiang to Okinawa — and for every state in the Eastern Europe that hasn't yet joined NATO or EU.

I appeal to the peoples of the world to pray that the suffering of America may come to an end with people of Xinjiang and Crimea getting their human rights. Meanwhile, if the mischievous people of Yemen, Kashmir, and Palestine claim that they do not find America anxious for their rights, they must be made to understand that the recipients of American mercy and benevolence are always found in the realm of the enemy. Where friends such as Saudi Arabia, India, and Israel operate, nothing can prevail but justice and tranquility.

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