We Sure Seem Bound and Determined…
Are you loving the Ride of Fate roller coaster yet? If you are an American, or one of its friends or (especially) one of its designated enemies, you better start paying more attention and find a way off this ride before it picks up too much speed.
Let’s review for a second. The United States, as a signatory to the UN charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, all of which it either wrote or had great input in developing, has used its great post-WW2 power and influence to urge/compel other countries to sign and uphold all of the above agreements. Under these sets of documents, waging war on a country that is not an “immediate and existential threat” is an act of egregious “aggression,” which is a defined war crime. Just ask US Supreme Court justice Robert Jackson, who was chief prosecutorial counsel at the Nuremberg Tribunal after WW2. He, as the principal writer of the charter governing the Nuremberg Tribunals, specified that unprovoked aggression against a country not at war and not threatening such is the most execrable war crime, for all other war crimes stem from it. In our most recent expedition into self-unaware double standards, the US has (yet again) managed to violate all of its commitments and self-righteous preening regarding standards of conduct in its use of Israel as a cat’s paw to “once and for all) level Iran.
Iran attacked no one, indeed, it was engaged in negotiations in which it signaled a clear intent to throttle back its nuclear enrichment program to the 3.67% uranium enrichment levels *every* country in the world is entitled to develop under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to which (unlike Israel, by the way) it is a signatory.
It is not necessary to like or approve of Iran’s internal policies or theological preferences to find them innocent of precipitating recent events. I certainly have no use for their Islam-based policies, but, objectively speaking, they are not the aggressors here.
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