At Salon, Glenn Greenwald accuses Hillary Clinton (and by extension American policy) of hypocrisy in demanding accountability for war crimes in Africa while overlooking some heinous behavious on its own part or that of its allies. Meanwhile the advocacy group ActionAid thinks that it is all well and good for Clinton (and again, by extension the United States) to urge reform in the agricultural sector, but argues that the US also needs to make some changes by rethinking subsidies for American farmers and relaxing a host of stringent market rules.
These points are so demonstrably true they hardly need much more commentary to augment them, save to say that American policy toward Africa has always been based on self interest almost solely, and that the hypocrisy is, sadly, nothing new.
