From: Phil Payne 

> 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.

But when they do so, they observe the Geneva Convention.  Why should anyone
who captures an American serviceman anywhere in the world treat him under
the Convention, when the US does not?

> 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.

Indeed there was.  Possibly not in the USA.

> 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.

Republican and Democrat are literally meaningless terms to me.

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