It’s all fine and dandy until ISIS or al-Qaeda shows up in the World Court — or, better yet, in a U.S. courtroom with an American legal team — to sue the U.S. government for a bazillion dollars over our “decades of American terrorism” in the Middle East.
Oh, I’m waiting for the Syrians to come and sue over how the weapons were brought into Syria and given to ISIS. They ought to sue for hundreds of billions.
What is stopping them from suing us over that now? Does this legislation change the law in any way that would make a difference in allowing them to do that?
No one can make the Saudis pay if they lose the case, short of us using force, and no one can make us do it either.
If being sued by jihadists was the worst thing you had to worry about from them, we’d be in good shape. Being sued is truly irrelevant since they’re already trying to summarily execute all of us.