From: Judy Folkenberg 



Randall Parker wrote:

> 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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