We (the US) are above international law

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. "Our vital national interests" trump the law, not to mention common human decency.

We kill, assassinate, torture, exploit, starve, humiliate, and/or hire other regimes to do it for us, all under the rubric of "Our vital national interests" and when found out rely on the piss-poor excuse of "everybody else does it".

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Gandhi