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U.S. Invents New Foreign Policy “Principle” That Contradicts Law
prin·ci·ple noun \ˈprin(t)-s(ə-)pəl, -sə-bəl\:
a : a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption
b (1) : a rule or code of conduct (2) : habitual devotion to right principles <a man of principle>
Leslie H. Gelb and Dimitri K. Simes, foreign policy honchos in Washington, ask in an NYT op-ed if there is A New Anti-American Axis?
They seem to believe that any cooperation between Russia and China is somewhat anti-American. There is nothing special to that. U.S. foreign policy folks are permanently constructing new boogeymen. But there is this rather weird passage in their writing:
Both Moscow and Beijing oppose the principle of international action to interfere in a country’s sovereign affairs, much less overthrow a government, as happened in Libya in 2011. After all, that principle could always backfire on them.
Since when is there a principle of interference in other countries business? There is none. The principle in international law is NOT to interfere in any sovereign state's local business.
According to international law scholar Richard Falk the principle of non-intervention is even obligatory for any state since it was incorporated into the Declaration of Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States adopted by the UN General Assembly resolution 2625 in 1970. The resolution notes:
The duty not to intervene in matters within the domestic jurisdiction of any State,..
Gelb and Simes are inventing a principle that says the opposite of the real internationally codified one. One that has been part of international law since the Westphalian Peace Treaty signed in 1648.
It seems like every time the U.S. can not get its ways through the application of international law it just tries to invents a new one even when that totally contradicts the exiting ones. Who do these U.S. foreign policy people want to impress with uttering such nonsense? Claiming such fraudulent principles will only encourage Russia, China and other international actors to counter them by ever deeper cooperation.
@guest77 | Jul 7, 2013 7:25:46 PM | 36, I remember that quote, themed around “Veni, vidi, vici”, but very sure the night before she watched ‘Ghost busters’ and took the line from “We came, We saw, We kicked its ass!” and just ended it with ‘He died’ – It was a crude statement and totally lacking any diplomacy, in fact her delivery was as if she was there – I guess if you lie and lie not only do others start believing, but you believe the lie yourself. Later that quote of hers could be more aptly suited for ‘Stevens’, then it would fit the situation.
Hillary Clinton was doing her part to help the Muslim Brotherhood implement the Turkey Strategy in Egypt when she said military leadership in past days were “clearly troubling, the military has to assume an appropriate role which is not to interfere with, dominate or try to subvert the constitutional authority,” In that, clearly Clinton does not have much to say or comprehend ‘subverting constitutional authority’ when Erdogan the administrations regional ally; jails political opponents, military officers, and journalists and gets the administrations green light.
In that, she lost all credibility with the Stevens event ‘He came, I flapped, he died’, he was also sent as a bad boy posting and to get him out of the hair of some.
She does not conceive foreign policy on the grand scale, she simply follows along, she is just in the shadow of her husband with the administration pushing her on stage with a makeover (Surgery, weight loss and a hair do), but it takes a lot more to make ‘Cigar stain’ vanish and she is venting, the problem is, on others.
So as mentioned, the US will equally just ride the wave and get on board the winning boat, and does not have ‘one rule for all’ approach,( Guest77 -because they play all sides) unless it’s the final blow – ‘Blanket Bombing’.
@Anon, ‘I’ thought it was just ‘me’ you parasitically annoyed, but it seems that is your MO to ‘all and sundry’, feel kinda left out now! Don’t students like you have friends on FB to play with? I am ‘assuming’ now your female, at collage and in the UK, so you should get out more, have some fun, your only young once; Or are you banned as the ‘Sisterhood’ forbids it, thus you do a ‘Hillary’ (Vent on others)?
Posted by: kev | Jul 8 2013 1:25 utc | 41
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