What's wrong with the 'global test' policy?

[EXman]

Originally posted by: cpumaster
Bush & his fans doesn't like it cuz they don't want accountability when they invaded someone or some country, in fact Bush & co. doesn't seem too thrill that they have to explain reasons for war to the rest of us. Prior and after the Iraq war, their attitude mostly seem to be just line up behind us and shut the fvck up, you unpatriotic anti-america whinner. Only when things started getting bad and the military get bogged down there does they came crawling back to UN and the rest of the world to ask for help (still in typically arrogant fashion tho)

What?

crawling back c'mon He knew they wouldn't lift a finger. It was a token gesture in hindsight. The UN are a bunch of self serving pigs that need to be thrown out of N.Y.C.

 

[lumen]

What is funny is how complicated people are making this whole "global test" buisness... just the fact that enough people are saying that we did the wrong thing and that a presidential candidate can use the question as a criticism on the incumbent says something... but here's more food for thought.

7 December, 1941... Japanese forces launch a surprise attack on the United States, quickly leading to a declaration of war from the U.S. on the then Empire of Japan. How many countries, global bodies etc or even individuals would say now, then or at any point in the interim that our action to declare war was unjustified? This is a good example of passing a "global test" we didn't ask permission to declare war, didn't take a vote.... but it was perfectly clear, we had passed the human ethical, moral etc tests that our action was beyond question..... Now... did Japan pass this test? I think not, it's a pretty widely accepted idea that Japan was totally in the wrong.

Now... did we pass the "test" when we invaded Iraq?


Don't get bogged down in the terminology, that's low-level brain function people... keep your eye on the target.