More humiliation for the USA. This time from a nominal Republican.
Can McCain write?
Whatever McPain contributes to PRAVDA, it will not be written by him. One of Juan's PR flacks will ghost write it for him. McPain hasn't had an original thought in decades. If he ever did, it would commit suicide from loneliness and despair.
He hasn’t written yet? And I thought I was late getting out this letter.
From: Retain Mike
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 9:16 PM
To: ‘yourletters@washingtontimes.com‘
Subject: Analyzing Putin
When Vladimir Putin warns about people seeing themselves as exceptional, I recall popular policies distorting the “American Dream”. Exceptionalism does not mean celebrating government collectively managing personal lives to ensure protection of home values, retirement accounts, healthcare, and “living” wages or endless unemployment compensation. Initial design benefited individuals cherishing life and liberty, and willing to undergo the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. Pursuit of happiness meant finding spiritual peace regardless of material prosperity.
This anomalous revolution celebrating personal liberty demanded a moral responsibility to bear any burden to spread the ideals this country aspires to. At the U.N. founding Eleanor Roosevelt defined our international commitment by writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Natural and inalienable rights of all people demanded for the human family life, liberty and security of person. In our time Ronald Reagan gave practical expression of this national ideal when as the last best hope of mankind the country picked a fight with the “Evil Empire”.
Now Putin’s disparagement of “you’re either with us or against us.”, fails to recognize this international commitment embodied in the Geneva Convention’s approach to terrorists. Terrorists are defined as beyond the pale in Article 13 of the First and Second Conventions, and in Article Three of the Fourth Convention. They are not the armed forces, militias, volunteer corps, insurgents, or freedom fighters of any country or authority. They direct their predations to Protected Persons, are pariahs to be eradicated, and are to find no shelter in the human community.
A Plea for Caution From Russia
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?hp&_r=1&;
First Geneva Convention (1949)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/First_Geneva_Convention_(1949)
Geneva Convention/Second Geneva Convention
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Second_Geneva_Convention
Geneva Convention/Fourth Geneva Convention
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention
“It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States,” the Russian president said
I wonder what Russia’s unfortunate neighbors would think about its aggressions?