Comments on: International Treaties — is there anything they can’t do? http://spleenville.com/wordpress/?p=147 Because sometimes you have to be cruel Sun, 19 May 2013 22:53:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on International Treaties — is there anything they can’t do? by: The_Real_JeffS http://spleenville.com/wordpress/?p=147#comment-525 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://spleenville.com/wordpress/?p=147#comment-525 <i>"The right to resist occupation ... cannot include the right to deliberately kill or maim civilians," Annan told the conference on democracy, terrorism and security. The United Nations, he said, must proclaim "loud and clear that terrorism can never be accepted or justified in any cause whatsoever."</i> Hey, Kofi! That's what we unilateral Yankees call "a day late and a dollar short". Assuming, of course, that <b>any</b> UN treaty is worth the paper it is written on. “The right to resist occupation … cannot include the right to deliberately kill or maim civilians,” Annan told the conference on democracy, terrorism and security. The United Nations, he said, must proclaim “loud and clear that terrorism can never be accepted or justified in any cause whatsoever.”

Hey, Kofi! That’s what we unilateral Yankees call “a day late and a dollar short”.

Assuming, of course, that any UN treaty is worth the paper it is written on.

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