Funny the subject said something about threatening. I see no threats. I mean withholding defense money from other nations isn't a threat, it's international politics. Threats are "we are going to invade you if you don't......".
Timothy Heald Information Systems Specialist Overseas Security Advisory Council U.S. Department of State 571.345.2235 -----Original Message----- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:12 PM To: CF-Community Subject: US threatens Caribbean Countries "SO now the United States of America, a country that prides itself as being democratic, just and humane, has decided to cut off military aid to several dozen countries whose only sin is to have supported, without reservation, a court established to punish sadistic and inhumane goons found guilty of serious and reprehensible crimes against humanity, genocide among them. Of course, the world's only remaining superpower is putting forward an argument that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could be used as a vehicle to subject American military personnel to frivolous, politicised and trumped-up charges. But any reasonable and objective reading of the court's statutes would show that such care has been taken to prevent precisely this kind of manipulation as to render it almost impossible. What, then, is really irking America? The answer lies in the ideological bent of the present Bush administration, which overturned the Clinton administration's support of the court in keeping with its increasingly unilateralist view of the world most vividly underscored, of course, by its decision to invade Iraq in spite of the protests of even some of its traditional and long-standing allies. What was, perhaps, just as significant as the American decision to plunge ahead regardless was the Bush administration's attitude towards those who opposed its pre-emptive strike against Saddam Hussein and his regime. Rather than see the objections of, say, France and Germany, as a genuine difference of opinion to which as sovereign, independent countries they were entitled, government spokesmen, led by the American president, left no doubt that they viewed the objections as nothing short of treachery. Put badly, what the administration was saying was that as far as the war against Iraq was concerned either you were with us or against us, whatever your concerns about the rightness of the invasion. Thinly-veiled threats were issued, which led to a round of diplomatic fence-mending which even now has not seen final construction. And here now, in the matter of the ICC, the United States is not only venting its fury by withdrawing military aid from targeted countries, but seeking to scuttle the court even before it gets off the ground-America's perceived rather than real interests being invoked to give succour to all those power-mad leaders to whom not only human life but entire populations mean nothing. Ironically, much of the so-called free world has long looked at America as the leader of what has turned out to be an ongoing fight against tyranny. Now that image has been tarnished with America emerging, in the words of this country's former president, ANR Robinson, as just another "bully". Mr Robinson has called on the countries affected, mainly poor and so-called Third World, to unite and fight, and while the battle may ultimately prove to be unequal, the fact remains that the regime now in power in the United States seems bent on putting up major roadblocks between itself and other nations. It may well come, in the fullness of time, to rue these days of wrath." - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go bush go. One wonders why America really doesn't want an International Criminal court that could bring dictators and war criminals to justice regardless of where they are in the world.Does it have something to gain by supporting these individuals? -Gel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
