Do as I say, not as I do

George Monbiot is a liberal English polemicist.  He has some interesting things to say about our country and its condemnations of the actions of other nations. Herewith a few of his thoughts:

• Why do we reject efforts to reform the security council?  He notes that half of the vetoes we have exercised have been prevent the censuring of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
• In 1997 we agreed within 10 years to decommission 31,000 tons of sarin and other chemical weapons we possessed. We have yet to do so, and now ay we will do it by 2021.
• We don't want international weapons inspectors to take samples of chemicals in the US and passed a law which forbade and allowed the president to refuse unannounced inspections. 
• We used chemical weapons in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 
• We kept quiet about Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iran.