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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (20550)8/3/2001 4:50:56 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Karen I personally got a kick out of

and the Europeans think being the world's most powerful democracy means always having to ask permission.

I disagree with this article. Most specifically

For the Bush team, being the world's leader means we should be able to do whatever we want when we want, unconstrained by treaties or multilateral agreements that might limit our consumption of resources (Kyoto) or our military power (the Anti-Ballistic Missile and nuclear testing treaties and the biological weapons convention) or our insane gun laws (the U.N. pact on small arms).

We are constrained by the ABM treaty but the treaty has a provision that either side can pull out with 6 months notice. Pulling out would not be violating the treaty, nor would creating missle defences after the pull out be a violation. The Kyoto treaty is not ratified and thus not binding on the US. I don't think our gun laws are insane but more to the point we haven't signed and ratified the UN small arms agreement.

I don't think we have to be accountable to others outside the country except for violations of our ratified agreements or perhaps inextreme cases like decideing to nuke some country that pissed us off...

That doesn't mean we should not consider the opinions of other countries but the US is a soverign state not an administrative district of the UN or a colony of the EU.

Iraq was a rogue state because it invaded attacked Iraq, then a few years later invaded Kuwait and lobbed missiles at Saudi and Israel. If the US sends the 10th infantry division north because we want some Canadian territory while bombing Mexico city and sponsoring a few terrorist attacks, then it would be fair to call us a rogue state.

Tim
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