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Your comment boils down to they did it so why can't we? That flies in the face of the supposed moral leadership (of the world) of our country.
by thereare5lights 6y ago
Your comment boils down to they did it so why can't we?
That flies in the face of the supposed moral leadership (of the world) of our country.
- Jweb_Guru 6y agoAmerica's morality has always come down to "might makes right" and it's quite clear that many people believe that's a perfectly satisfactory state of affairs.
- eanzenberg 6y agoWhy fund your own demise? You can’t take the moral high ground with an immoral enemy. This isn’t a movie.
- tehjoker 6y agoI find it difficult to recall the last time America took the moral high ground that wasn't based solely in looking good for anti-communist purposes in the last 75 years. The only exceptions were when domestic unrest forced the ruling class to give protestors civil rights. In particular, US foreign policy has been a long unending horror show of bombing, invasions, and starvation via sanctions. At the UN our record is dismal at best, with the US often standing entirely alone with regressive countries we've bought off like Saudia Arabia on a litany of issues.
- eanzenberg 6y agoUN, lul
- sudosysgen 6y agoThat's not the issue. The issue is then to claim the moral high ground to compel other people to sacrifice something.
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- Jweb_Guru 6y agoThank you for illustrating my point.
- orbifold 6y agoNo-one, not even your allies believe that the US is a moral actor, not since the Korean War or Hiroshima probably.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoI started my comment out with “ Not that it justifies our behavior” and referred to similar actions by both China and America as bad behavior. Bad doesn’t justify bad, and only provides a measure of irony.
- stale2002 6y agoRules are only good if most countries follow them. If you let someone get away with breaking the rule, without retaliating in kind, then you put yourself at a severe disadvantage to them.