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[livejournal.com profile] gavin6942 writes in this post that Obama is no better than the Republicans because he also believes that the US has the right to go around fighting optional wars in foreign countries. This is in fact against international law. America's doctrime of "preemptive war" is the biggest reason that the nations of the world fear us. As they rightly should.

Gavin's words made me chuckle:

"Assassinating terrorists on foreign soil is no more legal than a hunter shooting varmints in his neighbor's back yard. Just as it is no more right for American leaders to make blatant threats than for "rogue" nations to do so. By our own logic, Cuba and Venezuela have every right to fire missiles into Miami to eradicate the killers we harbor here."

Date: 2007-08-09 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liveonearth.livejournal.com
I think the crux lies in the saying: MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. Americans believe this. Since WWII we've had the might to kick the rest of the world around, and we have no intention of giving up the associated "right", nor the idea that we are morally and ethically "in the right".

Ron Paul is definitely an exception to this bullying status quo among US politicians. He has said that his first order as president would be for the aircraft carriers to back away from Iran. He understands blowback and is willing to speak about it.

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