Richard Stallman points to a NGO report "Rule of Power or Rule of Law", issued in May 2002, which spells out in detail the tendency of the U.S. in the last several years to disregard existing treaties, shape new treaties in negotiations only to reject them anyway, and generally weaken the rule of international law and rely on pure military power instead. The illegal war is just a logical extension of this policy; by far the most serious American action against the rule of international law to date, but certainly not the first one.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at April 8, 2003 02:08 PM | TrackBack