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Old 09-30-2002, 08:46 AM   #11
Undertoad
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I'm sure sensible people can negotiate fucking shipping rights without having a big building in NYC to do it in.

Meanwhile, in something like 45 of the last 50 uses of military force, the UN wasn't notified, consulted, asked, required, etc.

The little nations can do whatever the fuck they want, blatantly ignoring the UN, and morons you give them a free pass and hum a happy tune. See, to people like you, it's only a useless world body if the powerful countries ignore it. To people like you, it doesn't "weaken" international law when that body places conditions on the end of a war and then those conditions are violated. To people like you, it doesn't matter if the body has no interest or ability to actually verify and/or enforce its own provisions. That doesn't "weaken" international law, oh no, it's only when the shit has hit the fan and someone has to correct the entire situation that somehow law is threatened.

If the US unilaterally overthrows the world's most dangerous dictator, shipping rights for the North Sea may be in danger. What color is the sky in Alex's world?
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