The United States lost its legitimacy as a member of the world community when President Bush signed the memo “Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees” (Feb 2, 2002) which ironically authorized the application of torture to enemy combatants violating the Geneva Convention.
Under Trump’s America First concept, the United States does not have to obey any international constraints that violate its self interest. It shouldn’t surprise any one that Trump would seriously consider violating the Hague rule against destroying cultural artifacts that was put into place to stop nations from robbing other nations of their national treasures like the Germany Nazi did in world war 2.
In the struggle for maintaining world dominance, what are the consequences of the United States going rogue? In the Iraqi war, we had a coalition of the willing to assist in the war effort. How many nations will be willing if the United States violates international law and exonerates war criminals?
The United States lost its legitimacy as a member of the world community when President Bush signed the memo “Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees” (Feb 2, 2002) which ironically authorized the application of torture to enemy combatants violating the Geneva Convention.
Under Trump’s America First concept, the United States does not have to obey any international constraints that violate its self interest. It shouldn’t surprise any one that Trump would seriously consider violating the Hague rule against destroying cultural artifacts that was put into place to stop nations from robbing other nations of their national treasures like the Germany Nazi did in world war 2.
In the struggle for maintaining world dominance, what are the consequences of the United States going rogue? In the Iraqi war, we had a coalition of the willing to assist in the war effort. How many nations will be willing if the United States violates international law and exonerates war criminals?