Bush commutes Libby sentence

[eppie]

Thats a damn good question. Probably been asked a lot since the United Nations have been around.

But I think there *are* consequences for breaking the rules, just not immediate ones. The extremely bad image the United states are suffering from these days in many countries that used to be their most stalwart allies is one of them.

That would be a good thing indeed, however, in Holland I also see other things.
Bush' war on terror' also lives in Holland. We have a large population that reallty thinks that in 10 years holland might be a muslim state. The way people speak about multiculturism, asylum seekers and other faiths (these things are of course always confused) is absolutely terrible. 10 years ago people would go to jail for saying the kinds of things that now seem normal.

If Bush leaves office, it might seem that things will go better again, but the damage has been done already. The world has been changed in a few years into one with a new cold war kind of thing. This is not something that is easily ment again.

The fact is that a conflict is 'created' by Bin Laden and Bush and when such a clash of cultures/religion/way of life is there it is difficult to stay impartial, and if you are not impartial, you chose a side. And guess what; logically we (eg western europe) will of course chose the side of the US instead of Iran.
People will forget their disliking of the US, because it was a disliking of Bush, so the next US government can continue as leader of the world.