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To: GST who wrote (197464)	8/15/2006 12:03:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You can deal with "international criminal behavior", if you can have agreement about what it is (or someone is powerful enough to enforce their opinion of it), and if you have a world government to enforce the standards (but then is it really international anymore, the world becomes one nation), or if you have a defeated country surrender to people who will oppose the standards. Other than that you don't have any authority over nation states. You can get other more powerful nations or coalitions of nations impose control, but you have no organization that really has sovereignty and legal authority over nation states. Not only is there the issue of the difficulty of enforcement, and the issue of no real legal authority, there is also the practical issue that many times international bodies trying to impose justice just do a lousy job. Pointing out these facts isn't accepting, let alone supporting criminal behavior. I wasn't primarily talking about the overall problems with the idea of international justice before this post, but rather the claims made against Israel and the US, which are mostly false. Pointing out that they where false, isn't supporting criminal behavior.