I probably should look at what the American response to the killing of 24 Pakistani troops--allies--has been. But I don't want to. I don't want to read about or hear "apologies" for a "mistake"--which is a euphemism for "So what?"
A country that exists as far outside the idea of law as the United States does is not to be trusted for anything, anywhere, at any time. Torture, vigilante murders carried out--proudly--in other countries, the concentration camp at Guantanamo, the imprisonment of Bradley Manning: these are the signatures of the United States. And all are violations of what the world has agreed are the standards for civilised conduct on this planet.
Perhaps the rest of the world should pool its resources, and build a huge rocket that could send the United States into outer space. The hole left by its absence would hold enough water to reduce world flood threats, eliminate 65% of the world's carbon emissions, and get rid of most of the world's nuclear weapons. Our planet would be a better, safer, more livable place if most of North America could be sent into exile.
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