From: Randall Parker 

So then why don't you also have contempt for the French for violating
international law? They go into African countries with no UN mandate.

And why no contempt for the US when the US did airstrikes against the Serbs
without UN mandate? I mean, there was the US and its NATO allies carrying
on like the UN didn't matter. All of them flaunting international law in
the Balkans. Oh the outrage.

Where you are just plain hallucinating is by imagining there really is some
well defined body of international law. On top of the hallucination you go
applying it incredibly selectively (basically whenever a Republican US
President does something you don't approve of) while being totally
oblivious to your own double standard.

Phil Payne wrote:

> http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/31010NSCOTUS-GUANTANAMO.html
>
> "The perception of this case abroad - that the power of the United States
> can be exercised outside the law - will diminish our stature and repute,"
> said a brief filed by 19 former diplomats. "Our most important diplomatic
> asset has been this nation's values."
>
> Ain't got nothin' to do with "perceptions", old son.  The
facts speak for
> themselves - the USA now ignores international law whenever it suits US
> interests - period.
>
> And then expects other to abide by it.
>
> Americans are already reviled in many countries, and that includes some
> people in the UK.  I know of several regulars of my local pub who have only
> contempt for Americans.
>

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