Bush commutes Libby sentence

[Occhidiangela]

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.

I'd suggest you all, in this conversation, get out of your heads the idea of the UN has "rules" and replace that with the term "guiding principles" and "declarations" since that is about as far as the Charter's language can be taken. The reason for th is is due to there being no higher authority that enforces them, on nations of the UN, other than the nations themselves.

Basically, you can view the UNSC as a lynch mob taking power into its own hands when it bloody well feels like it, and when it can unanimously agree to get out of its own/each other's way to do so.

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. As long as the United Nations have no way to sanction a nation with veto rights, getting some "booo"s from the crowd is all that's gonna happen, though. B)

Yes, on both counts. Those costs are in the long term, and ignored as "not my problem" by the Bushco. Those folks live in the Now, knowing they had at most 8 years to try their hands.

Occhi