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2020-09-03 International-UN-NGOs

Trump administration imposes sanctions on ICC prosecutor investigating alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Fatou Bensouda I've heard this name before.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-03 02:25|| 2020-09-03 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 ICC says U.S. sanctions are an attack on rule of law

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-03 03:10|| 2020-09-03 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 And whose law is supposed to impact on the US?

Sure as hell ain't yours.

Posted by AlanC 2020-09-03 07:16|| 2020-09-03 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Never bothered to check the number of Article 32 investigations and courts martials conducted by the American military of its own. You only need someone to 'help' if you don't do it yourself. We're covered.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-03 07:18|| 2020-09-03 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The US sets up the international institutions, but as World Police is exempt from them. The US has to get its hands dirty clearing the way for an eventual global governance, and using the machinery that the US has set up to hinder the US in its mission is clearly wrong.

The United States does act as an international sheriff, self-appointed perhaps but widely welcomed nevertheless, trying to enforce some peace and justice in what Americans see as a lawless world where outlaws need to be deterred or destroyed, and often through the muzzle of a gun.

That this does not benefit the American people is irrelevant. Their blood will water the new global governance, even though they do not realize it. Americans have always believed that they had discovered the secret to human happiness and wished to export it to the rest of the world. This ICC prosecutor is trying to derail this process.

Posted by Mr Obvious 2020-09-03 09:29|| 2020-09-03 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Americans have always believed that they had discovered the secret to human happiness and wished to export it to the rest of the world.

Thank you for that bit of enlightenment. Evidently I am swimming against the tide as I could care less what level of "happiness" the "rest of the world" enjoys or is devoid of. I do wish them all the very best, but how they achieve their best is quite frankly none of my fok'n business.

It truly is amazing what we can learn here, about ourselves.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-03 10:07|| 2020-09-03 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 That is certainly one view of the situation, Mr. McCoy.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-03 10:24|| 2020-09-03 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 The United States does act as an international sheriff, self-appointed perhaps

peace and justice in what Americans see as a lawless world where outlaws need to be deterred or destroyed,

It is silly to attribute the follies of some retards in the ⭔ and some deeply invested spooks, to the entire nation as a people.

Trump wants a pullout, an end to this nonsense. It's just the advisors and spooks that are trying to delay it.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-09-03 10:32|| 2020-09-03 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 but how they achieve their best is quite frankly none of my fok'n business.

Unless their best involves oppressing US. E.G. if China's best involves infecting us and the rest of the world with the Whu Flu then it quickly becomes our business. Remember that the enemy gets a vote on peace or war.

Posted by AlanC 2020-09-03 12:10|| 2020-09-03 12:10|| Front Page Top

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