North Korea an Aggressor? A Reality Check
September 5, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsThe mention of one tiny country appears to strike at the rationality and sanity of those who should know far better
Felicity Arbuthnot
The mention of one tiny country appears to strike at the rationality and sanity of those who should know far better
The last straw will break the camel's back.
On Monday 10th July, a ruling was handed down by London's High Court, which should, in a sane world, exclude the UK government ever again judging other nations' leaders' human rights records or passing judgement on their possession or use of weapons.
Perhaps, at last, justice may have a chance, one which might set a precedent and also deter any politician or leader from embarking on the "supreme international crime", ever again. Here's fervently hoping.
When she spoke after Manchester's tragedy: "May's speech did not address allegations that in 2011, while she was Home Secretary, Libyan Islamists previously under surveillance in Britain were given back their passports and helped by the government to fly to Libya to fight Muammar Gadaffi's administration.
"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli." (Howard Zinn, 1922-2010)
In a nauseating irony, exposed by the Palmer Report, Trump may have profited from the deaths he caused.
Prime Minister May's endlessly repeated mantra "Brexit means Brexit" (Britain leaving the European Union) takes on a whole new meaning: she is prepared to trigger the UK departing the planet.
The insane threats also come from a man who achieved five draft deferments during the Vietnam war, thus has no knowledge even of what one bullet can do, let alone the vapourising monstrosities he seems to think he has divine power to unleash on a whim.
Without the slightest proof produced by the US that such a test was attempted, yet alone a nuclear one, Donald Trump's language and that of his fiefdom have been on the level of a bar room brawl rather than statesmanlike