Atheism
Politics
Memes
Mind
Matters
String
Random
Interact
Feedback
Links
Debate
Home
Conspiracy Theories
War: What is it Good For?
Americans are...
The Right to Bare Arms
9/11 Inside Job?
Why are Americans proud of the SR-71, U-2 and the mythical Aurora? They only have one purpose: to intrude into airspace they have no permission to enter in order to spy on sovereign states. Every time they are launched on a mission they break international law.
Why do Americans glory in these shameful aircraft?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused when the USA flew over Cuba illegally and took photographs of missiles based there, in a sovereign state, and objected to them being there! Why the hell did America think it had the right to say anything about what a sovereign state outside its jurisdiction did? What would Americans have said if Soviet aircraft had flown over Nevada and taken pictures and complained about what they found? They would have been said it was no other country's business what they do in their country and how dare a foreign country fly over their territory without permission. Hello? Wake up and smell the hypocrisy.
The U-2 and the SR-71 are aircraft, they do not carry oxygen for their engines, they fly in air. If that air is over another country then they are almost certainly breaking the law. That is what they do. It's all they do. They are built to break international law and to infringe the rights of other sovereign states. Anybody who trains to fly one is a criminal as most of their peacetime orders would be illegal.
The United States is a rogue state.
I just read your article on America should be ashamed of its spying. |
Or in other words international law is for other people, America is too important to be bound by any obligations to anybody else.
Why is America different?
Why is it OK for America to have weapons of mass destruction? Remember that America is the only country to have actually demonstrated a willingness to use nuclear weapons.
Why are US soldiers immune from prosecution as war criminals? If they were immune from being war criminals that would be a different matter.
Why should American aircraft be allowed to fly wherever they can get away with flying?
In 1962 the United States had land-based missiles tipped with weapons of mass destruction pointing at the Soviet Union from all angles and was regularly and illegally over-flying their territory. These missiles were housed above ground. They could be fired within forty-five minutes. They were sitting ducks. The only sensible analysis is that these liquid fuelled short range missiles were designed to be first strike weapons, America had a policy of the first use of thermonuclear weapons, not just using nuclear weapons before the other side used nuclear weapons but using nuclear weapons before the other side had planes in the air. And America was the only nation on the planet which had demonstrated a willingness to use such weapons of mass destruction.
Why is America different? Is there any reason other than the fact that America is powerful enough to think it plays by rules it makes up as it goes along?
If any other nation acts the way America acts it is treated as a terrible affront, a hostile act, an insult which has to be responded to with force. But when people treat America as a global bully you act all dumbfounded and you cannot understand their thinking.
America's behaviour is not a problem if America really is the the good guy but what evidence is there that America is the good guy? WWII was a long time ago. Since then the only time American forces have faced an enemy on anything even approaching level terms was in Korea, most US military encounters are like watching the World Series champions take on Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Americans have trained and equipped third world trouble makers from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden and have kicked out democratically elected leaders and installed pro-American fascist leaders in their place.
If you were anything other than an American you might be able to see things with a fundamentally different perspective.
Why is America different? I really want to see a good answer.