tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5651821950059740030..comments2024-03-28T06:06:55.146-05:00Comments on Althouse: "How awful was John Kerry’s speech on Israel?"Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56129431358636470792016-12-31T16:04:20.781-06:002016-12-31T16:04:20.781-06:00"Illustrates the density of a black hole.&quo...<i>"Illustrates the density of a black hole."</i> <br /><br />No. If someone is going to make an ugly accusation, they should identify who they're accusing and why. I'm assuming it was intended for J.Farmer, but I could be wrong. If I am right, I'm curious why he would be labeled so. I've seen nothing he's written here that suggests he is a "jew-hater." Charges of anti-semitism are cheap and easy, and too often thrown at people merely for criticizing a nation-state, (Israel). Is Israel off-limits for criticism?Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17637803983687074822016-12-30T22:24:52.893-06:002016-12-30T22:24:52.893-06:00Robert Cook said...
"Seems to be 1 jew-hater...Robert Cook said... <br />"Seems to be 1 jew-hater against the commentariat."<br /><br />Who is the "jew-hater?"<br /><br />Illustrates the density of a black hole. Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48678326599108806852016-12-30T11:13:46.705-06:002016-12-30T11:13:46.705-06:00Oh, Robert Cook! If you didn't have your petty...Oh, Robert Cook! If you didn't have your petty delusions what would you have left?<br /><br />Excoriation is worthless, except to The countries that wish to submit to such. The countries that do not care far outnumber the ones that do. Shall we start lists?<br /><br />The United States can withdraw from the U.N. on a whim. The U.N. Charter is in conflict with the U.S. Constitution as suggested above by the U.S. judge on the ICJ. We have withdrawn from "compulsory" jurisdiction of the ICJ because the United States is a sovereign.<br /><br />Hobbes has taught us all we need to know about international law.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35489721600329344792016-12-30T10:11:26.863-06:002016-12-30T10:11:26.863-06:00Benghazi was about a video, "Shirley you jest...Benghazi was about a video, "Shirley you jest" Why do we continue to project our lives into these third world countries? I've been there and worse. There is no internet, there are no internet cafes, they live on barely one dollar a day and military hand outs of bread they bake for the tribes. And I'm not sure I saw a single flip phone cell phone, and no cell phone towers except for in the middle of the totalfina oil fields. W're idiots for believing anything Washington says, no wonder mr. T. doesn't have time to listen to the U.S. intelligence, any of those folks that say anything are talking from no experience, I wager mr. T. or his staff have more exxperidnce in those places tyring to buy options on beachfront for possible resorts. And he's got an Ex. Defence intelligence agency guy working for him, who understands just how bad and dysfunctional these instituions have become he'll likely will close most of them or sunset them or term limit them until the next real emergency when they need to be rebuoiolt when the U.S. and our families will know they will die if agencies like this don't work. because they simply can't be fixed today from the shape their are in as his military folks know frm direct experience in every war since Gb1. I can still hear Noman S. yelling standing on his desk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59815409218967684062016-12-30T09:36:09.892-06:002016-12-30T09:36:09.892-06:00"You are under the delusion that a sovereign ...<i>"You are under the delusion that a sovereign must ask permission."</i><br /><br />As per our Article 6 obligations under the Constitution, the UN Charter is the law of the land. According to the law of the land, no member nation may unilaterally wage war against any other member nation without UN Security Council authorization, except in cases where there is an imminent self-defense necessity.<br /><br />This is not "international law." It is domestic law, "the law of the land," as per the Constitution.<br /><br />(BTW, for all those haw-hawing at the notion of "international law," you're simply undermining any basis the US might have to excoriate any other nations for being "outlaws" due to their international behavior. If there is no international law, then every country is free to do as it pleases to whomever it pleases whenever it pleases, and no other nation has shit to say about it. So, this idea that Russia be sanctioned for its alleged--but unproven--hacking of the DNC and so-called "interference in our election" is simply nonsense. Russian may do whatever it likes to us, until we decide to launch a war against them.)Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81492963181746359462016-12-30T09:27:07.575-06:002016-12-30T09:27:07.575-06:00Looks like the UK and Australia also agree w.r.t. ...Looks like the UK and Australia also agree w.r.t. Kerry's awfulness: <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/30/uk-australia-rebuke-kerry-quit-blaming-lack-of-progress-entirely-on-settlements/" rel="nofollow">UK, Australia rebuke Kerry: Quit blaming lack of progress entirely on settlements</a>.Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11334193748458827042016-12-30T09:27:04.474-06:002016-12-30T09:27:04.474-06:00Robert Cook:
You are under the delusion that a so...Robert Cook:<br /><br />You are under the delusion that a sovereign must ask permission.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84475164839856635872016-12-30T09:02:51.178-06:002016-12-30T09:02:51.178-06:00"...the UN Security Council adopted a comprom...<i>"...the UN Security Council adopted a compromise resolution, UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which authorized the resumption of weapons inspections and promised "serious consequences" for non-compliance. <b>Security Council members France and Russia made clear that they did not consider these consequences to include the use of force to overthrow the Iraqi government.[49] Both the U.S. ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, and the UK ambassador, Jeremy Greenstock, publicly confirmed this reading of the resolution, assuring that Resolution 1441 provided no 'automaticity' or 'hidden triggers' for an invasion without further consultation of the Security Council</b>.[50]"</i><br /><br />---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq<br /><br /><i>"On August 5, 2002, Powell advised the President that the United States should only attack Iraq if it had a UN Security Resolution authorizing such action. Powell hoped that a UN resolution might force Saddam to back down from his intransigence on WMD inspections—which it in fact did."</i><br /><br /><br /><i>"At the United Nations, the United States negotiated with France and others for eight weeks and on November 8 passed UN Security Council Resolution 1441 by a vote of fifteen to zero. The resolution, backed by American intelligence, declared Iraq to be in “material breach of cease fire terms” and gave Saddam a “final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations.”<br /><br />"But the resolution did not authorize “all necessary means”—that is to say, force—to be used. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte agreed that another resolution would be necessary to authorize the United States to invade Iraq.<br /><br />"Iraq agreed to the resolution and opened its doors to inspection teams led by Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, who declared Iraq devoid of WMDs and released forty-three volumes of documentation to try to prove it.96 German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer argued that inspections were 'moving in the right direction and. . . they should have all the time which is needed.'97"</i><br /><br /><i>"Opposition to war was meanwhile mounting in Europe. Blair insisted on a second UN Security Council resolution to bring his country along, but the French feared that a resolution would just be a rubber stamp on a dubious U.S. case for war. <b>In March, when the French threatened to veto a second resolution, Bush dropped the effort and gave Saddam a forty-eight-hour ultimatum to leave Iraq</b>."</i><br /><br />---http://www.newsweek.com/iraq-war-bushs-biggest-blunder-294411Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-87728452020609857112016-12-30T08:50:15.546-06:002016-12-30T08:50:15.546-06:00"Seems to be 1 jew-hater against the commenta...<i>"Seems to be 1 jew-hater against the commentariat."</i><br /><br />Who is the "jew-hater?"Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66822556190686894302016-12-30T08:49:16.040-06:002016-12-30T08:49:16.040-06:00Your compelling argument against my comment, Birke...Your compelling argument against my comment, Birkel, as usual, completely fails as a response, much less as a refutation.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-855417687289878842016-12-30T08:45:50.432-06:002016-12-30T08:45:50.432-06:00The special brand of idiocy that is Robert Cook.The special brand of idiocy that is Robert Cook.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63944812362996936302016-12-30T08:45:41.279-06:002016-12-30T08:45:41.279-06:00"I think you mean UN resolution 1441, and no,...<i>"I think you mean UN resolution 1441, and no, actually it did not. The US did not have authorization to unilaterally enforce 1441. That rested in the security council. Why was the US trying to get another security council resolution?"</i><br /><br />What J. Farmer says.<br /><br />Actually, at Colin Powell's urging, Bush reluctantly sought to get a UN Resolution to authorize an invasion of Iraq, but the motion was withdrawn by the US when it became apparent the they didn't have the votes in the Security Council to get it passed.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15323001203423371642016-12-30T08:32:17.735-06:002016-12-30T08:32:17.735-06:00"J Farmer, UN resolution 1446 authorized the ...<i>"J Farmer, UN resolution 1446 authorized the Iraq invasion, IIRC."</i><br /><br />No, it did not.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91152401899390575112016-12-30T01:38:25.530-06:002016-12-30T01:38:25.530-06:00http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-fumes-over-us-...http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-fumes-over-us-sanctions-says-it-will-wait-for-trump-response/Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59431012138716933812016-12-30T01:09:47.268-06:002016-12-30T01:09:47.268-06:00We can fix it.We can fix it.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91970833809670679172016-12-30T00:41:45.766-06:002016-12-30T00:41:45.766-06:00You can tell us.
You can tell us.<br />Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80218602444544897392016-12-30T00:40:01.241-06:002016-12-30T00:40:01.241-06:00Let it flow.Let it flow.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20166728064120916872016-12-30T00:38:15.041-06:002016-12-30T00:38:15.041-06:00Don't want to upset walter, but did anybody no...Don't want to upset walter, but did anybody notice some sort of a change of gears here?Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83283929963517712242016-12-30T00:33:17.806-06:002016-12-30T00:33:17.806-06:00@Jon:
Sadly, no. Plain old cannabinoids. Benzoylm...<b>@Jon:</b><br /><br />Sadly, no. Plain old cannabinoids. Benzoylmethylecgonine is for the weekend, silly. J. Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09118902560282089997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44891185255850591912016-12-30T00:26:15.905-06:002016-12-30T00:26:15.905-06:00Benzoylmethylecgonine to the rescue!Benzoylmethylecgonine to the rescue!Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60392141937054569692016-12-30T00:22:05.718-06:002016-12-30T00:22:05.718-06:00@Birkel:
Which J. Farmer shall I mock?
Tommy Cho...<b>@Birkel:</b><br /><br /><i>Which J. Farmer shall I mock?</i><br /><br />Tommy Chong broke the law in the 2003 and went to federal prison for nine months for it. I didn't call for his arrest, and I don't think he should have been prosecuted. There's no contradiction between those two statements.J. Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09118902560282089997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76729531138820231102016-12-30T00:11:21.386-06:002016-12-30T00:11:21.386-06:00Never stop being who you are<a href="https://youtu.be/pJAjb2GYHIM" rel="nofollow">Never stop being who you are</a>Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70700984481273892582016-12-30T00:10:21.373-06:002016-12-30T00:10:21.373-06:00J. Farmer: "No, and as I've said repeated...J. Farmer: "No, and as I've said repeatedly, I have never said that Israel must do anything."<br /><br /> J. Farmer: "There is an "enforcement mechanism" for international law, and they are typically delineated in the treaties in which they are based."<br /><br />Which J. Farmer shall I mock?Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46524895444397643752016-12-30T00:02:50.535-06:002016-12-30T00:02:50.535-06:00Israel First or America First?
I thought Mr. Buch...<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/israel-first-or-america-first/" rel="nofollow">Israel First or America First?</a><br /><br />I thought Mr. Buchanan's realistic assessment of the global situation and unabashed pro-America position was a welcome antidote to all the overwrought, hysterical gushing that is so predictably prevalent all over this thread. J. Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09118902560282089997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71814752713773735152016-12-29T23:52:12.520-06:002016-12-29T23:52:12.520-06:00@Birkel:
Is there an enforcement mechanism for do...<b>@Birkel:</b><br /><br /><i>Is there an enforcement mechanism for domestic law? Then you are wrong.</i><br /><br />There is an "enforcement mechanism" for international law, and they are typically delineated in the treaties in which they are based. The question is not one of existence but execution. Similarly, there is an enforcement mechanism in domestic law, and there are questions of its execution. The nature, legitimacy, and analysis of the method of execution is a big part of the legal profession. <br /><br />For example: Iraq violated the UN charter when it invaded Kuwait in 1990. The security council found Iraq in violation of the charter and imposed penalties in the form of authorizing the use of force to compel its compliance. Hence, member states formed in coalition and repelled Iraq from Kuwait. That was the enforcement mechanism.<br /><br />The fact that enforcement is selective and not equally distributed (exactly as its selective and not equally distributed in domestic law) does not mean that countries are not bound by obligations they agree to in international agreements.<br /><br />So now let me return to you a question and see if you'll answer or continue your pattern of steadfastly refusing to answer questions you seemingly have no answer for: if Security Council resolutions are meaningless, then why does anybody care about US abstention? Why does Israel care about the US security council at all?<br /><br /><i>I mock you because you are boring and dull.</i><br /><br />And yet you read and reply everything I write...to a much greater degree than most others on this site. Are you a masochist?<br /><br /><b>@richard mcenroe:</b><br /><br /><i>J Farmer, UN resolution 1446 authorized the Iraq invasion, IIRC.</i><br /><br />I think you mean UN resolution 1441, and no, actually it did not. The US did not have authorization to unilaterally enforce 1441. That rested in the security council. Why was the US trying to get another security council resolution?<br /><br /><br />J. Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09118902560282089997noreply@blogger.com