Again, essential reading for anyone who complained about China's cosiness with the WHO. Any wonder why America is so widely loathed?pietillidie wrote:Trump's corrupt, thuggish attack on the ICC:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... man-rights
Post inauguration Trump:
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It's good that there's something in there that you think casts the Slump in a favourable light. Everyone who has reviewed the book seems to think it will end his presidency.
Not that I care, I hasten to add - I don't really have any investment in which of those two authoritarian nutjobs happened, in a particular case, to be less wrong on some issue about a use of force contrary to international law. If there's anything that interests me about this, it's where the advice is from White House Counsel concerning the legality of such action. No doubt that is dealt with somewhere else in nearby pages?
Not that I care, I hasten to add - I don't really have any investment in which of those two authoritarian nutjobs happened, in a particular case, to be less wrong on some issue about a use of force contrary to international law. If there's anything that interests me about this, it's where the advice is from White House Counsel concerning the legality of such action. No doubt that is dealt with somewhere else in nearby pages?
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Really?David wrote:It’s actually a significant relief, in my book, that he knows some language other than escalation and that he is instinctively opposed to military conflict.
Well, he did instinctively ask Daddy to fix him up with a medical certificate so that he could dodge the draft. I guess that counts.
But I hope that you are right. I fear very much that you are not. My expectation is that he will try to start a war sometime between now and November, because that is now his only hope of reelection and he knows it. He just has to find a semi-plausible way to make it look as though the other side started it.
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Hardly essential reading, typical Guardian editorial playing directly to their target audience. The USA never signed up for the ICC, even under Obama.David wrote:Again, essential reading for anyone who complained about China's cosiness with the WHO. Any wonder why America is so widely loathed?pietillidie wrote:Trump's corrupt, thuggish attack on the ICC:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... man-rights
I don't wonder why the USA is widely loathed, I don't even consider that a legitimate question considering the majority of places that potentially do loathe the USA, I wouldn't urinate on if they were experiencing combustion issues.
Certainly the vast majority of Australians do not loathe the USA whereas the vast majority do have less than kind feelings about China
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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