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Warren Stupidity

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15. Your outrage is hypocritical.

Tue May 20, 2014, 12:10 PM

May 2014

Our government's feigned outrage is hypocritical.

I am not justifying anything other than we ought to clean our own house first.

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Russia vows to veto UN resolution for international criminal court to look into allegations against [View all] pampango May 2014 OP

Will our resident rt.com-quoting Putinistas defend this or geek tragedy May 2014 #1

They will throw the wishes of 60 of the worlds countries under the bus if one of them is the US and stevenleser May 2014 #2

it always amazes me that we have foreign nationalists geek tragedy May 2014 #4

As the U.S.has done at the UN with vetoes of anti-Israel resolutions. former9thward May 2014 #33

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh malaise May 2014 #41

No shushing needed. That person missed the point. Are you defending one and not the other? nt stevenleser May 2014 #43

No one here has defended that. This is the difference. We're talking about DUers defending it. stevenleser May 2014 #42

That Dicker fellow sounds like a moron. bemildred May 2014 #3

That presumes that getting Russia and China on board with human geek tragedy May 2014 #6

It's just a fact. The details are in the story: bemildred May 2014 #8

Again, it depends on whether one's goal is to tilt at that windmill geek tragedy May 2014 #10

Prancing around like you hold some position of moral superiority won't get you far, bemildred May 2014 #17

human rights advocacy is very often about naming and shaming geek tragedy May 2014 #18

But you have to have some credibility to do that. We don't. bemildred May 2014 #19

This article is not about threats and name-calling. It's about a vote geek tragedy May 2014 #20

Which is, as you and the OP admit, purely for PR purposes, i.e. propaganda. bemildred May 2014 #21

sorry, that is an erroneous, binary, extremely US-centric misinterpretation of events. geek tragedy May 2014 #22

And you keep trying to assert we hold the moral high ground, don't you? nt bemildred May 2014 #23

who is 'we?' This resolution isn't supported by my government. nt geek tragedy May 2014 #24

The 60 nations you mentioned, who else would it be? nt bemildred May 2014 #25

I am not a citizen of one of those 60 countries. geek tragedy May 2014 #26

Good for you. bemildred May 2014 #27

well, let's just scrap all international human rights law then. geek tragedy May 2014 #28

Might as well. Everybody ignores them and uses them for propaganda. bemildred May 2014 #29

international standards exist to constrain the strong. geek tragedy May 2014 #32

International standards exist to befuddle the weak. bemildred May 2014 #38

We have all kinds of moral superiority when it comes to Russia and China. Our records in totality okaawhatever May 2014 #30

Our record certainly does speak for itself. nt bemildred May 2014 #31

records should speak for themselves. nt geek tragedy May 2014 #35

It does. nt bemildred May 2014 #39

Your point? And are you even a US citizen? nt okaawhatever May 2014 #36

Born and raised here, and very well educated too. nt bemildred May 2014 #40

The US and Israel refuse to recognize the ICC. nt. Warren Stupidity May 2014 #5

Which is relevant to France's resolution, how? nt geek tragedy May 2014 #7

It is relevant to the hypocritical poutrage here over Russia. Warren Stupidity May 2014 #9

Ah, so it's bad when the US does it but not objectionable when Russia does geek tragedy May 2014 #11

No, I didn't say that, I said we fucked up by dissing international treaty obligations, Warren Stupidity May 2014 #13

France is sponsoring the resolution, not the US. geek tragedy May 2014 #14

Your outrage is hypocritical. Warren Stupidity May 2014 #15

Sorry, I don't share your navel-gazing, US-centric view of the planet. geek tragedy May 2014 #16

We haen't ratified the Rome Treaty so we aren't members of the ICC and haven't "f'ed up or dissed" okaawhatever May 2014 #34

As do Syria and Russia. Quite an illustrious group there which we are a member of. pampango May 2014 #12

The ICC may very well get Assad one day...fingers crossed. n/t Jefferson23 May 2014 #37