DUET LAWYERS ROCKEFELLER CLINTONS & SOETEROS OBAMAS TOO |
My credibility is not on the line — the international community’s credibility is on the line…The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war.
DUO ATTORNEYS AT LAW SHARING US PRESIDENCY #44 |
Or rather, it “cares”—words will be spoken, but words are not acts, and the Chemical Weapons Convention (the treaty Obama appears to be referencing) contains no means of enforcement against non-signatories such as Syria, much less military enforcement.
We can go back to that recurrent question: does Obama actually believe the case to be otherwise, or is he just saying it for face-saving effect? I believe the answer is: both of the above. One of Obama’s guiding principles is internationalism, and his understanding of the international community seems to have stopped at the level he achieved as a Columbia undergraduate.
The international community is composed of nations, and only sometimes do a bunch of those nations of the international community come together on something and act. To Obama, considering the self-interest of the US is a foreign notion. But foreign nations consider their own self-interest first and foremost, and it’s not at all clear that Obama gets that concept.
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