New York's Newsday reports the latest in Radical Republican stupidity. According to the report,

"Under a provision in a sweeping spending law signed Wednesday by President George W. Bush, Washington will freeze aid to nations that don't sign pacts with Washington exempting U.S. nationals from prosecution before the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.

Between eight and 50 nations will be disqualified from receiving money under the U.S. government's Economic Support Fund, which helps U.S. allies promote democracy and combat terrorism, drug trafficking and internal conflicts."

So either you're with us or against us. If you're unwilling to look the other way while the US flouts international law, commits war crimes in the name of fighing terrorism, and violates human rights at home and abroad then we don't really care if you have the resources to fight drug trafficking and terrorism. In the event that your country does become a narco-terrorist base camp, we'll just bomb you and start shipping randomly selected people to Guantanamo Bay for questioning. After all, the rules are for the little guys and everyone knows that the US would never engage in torture, random killings of civilians, destruction of property, intimidation of journalists, or anything else that might resemble a war crime.
posted by Idle Crank at 12/14/2004 10:44:00 AM