blatham wrote:Asherman
As I've tried to argue, I think this reluctance to acknowledge how you are screwing up in the world (and why) is the self-inflicted wound most likely to do you and the rest of us great disservice.
My problem with your argument, Blatham, is that you require that we accept, unmodified, your view that we are screwing up the world, that our political leaders are ignorant, unwise and ill-intentioned and the examples you allege illustrate these things. However, you persistently fail to respond to the (mostly) reasoned responses that outline the case (such as it is) for our actions, the reasons many of us believe they are called for, and the beliefs of our elected leaders.
You have asserted that the U.S. defies settled world opinion and our rejection of the Kyoto, ICC, and Law of the Sea treaties proves it. I have pointed out to you that the governments representing a large majority of the world's population have soundly rejected each of these treaties. You have not responded.
You are welcome to your views and the repeated expression of them. However mere repetition of them does not illuminate the question or issue: it just puts dust in the air.