> the scene that has kept replaying in my head as I’ve been following the news today is a fictional one—a conversation between White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry and President Jed Bartlet [in] the third season of The West Wing [...] McGarry is trying to persuade a reluctant Barlet to green-light an (arguably unlawful) special forces operation to kill the Defense Minister of the Sultanate of Qumar [...] McGarry asks Bartlet what his true objection is, and Bartlet responds “Doesn't this mean we join the league of ordinary nations?”
LOL. I hope this was meant as a joke (it doesn't seem so from the rest of the article). There have been all sort of thuggish, unlawful, criminal US interventions around the world in the past century. Coups against democratic governments replaced by ferocious dictatorships, illegal wars, bombings of civilians, kidnaps and torture, diplomatic and military support genocidal countries... the list is well known and almost endless. The US have recently put under sanctions ICC judges investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity. To try to imply that somehow the US have been behaving better than "ordinary nations" is already shameless propaganda.
throw310822•1mo ago
LOL. I hope this was meant as a joke (it doesn't seem so from the rest of the article). There have been all sort of thuggish, unlawful, criminal US interventions around the world in the past century. Coups against democratic governments replaced by ferocious dictatorships, illegal wars, bombings of civilians, kidnaps and torture, diplomatic and military support genocidal countries... the list is well known and almost endless. The US have recently put under sanctions ICC judges investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity. To try to imply that somehow the US have been behaving better than "ordinary nations" is already shameless propaganda.