© Amnesty InternationalNabeela, eight-year-old granddaughter of Mamana Bibi. Mamana was killed by an illegal U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. The U.S. is exploiting the lawless and remote nature of the region to evade accountability for its drone program, including killings that may constitute extrajudicial executions or war crimes.
International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a "breach of international law." Secretary of State John Kerry followed up by declaring that Russia is "in direct, overt violation of international law."
Unfortunately, during the last five years, no world leader has done more to undermine international law than Barack Obama. He treats it with rhetorical adulation and behavioral contempt, helping to further normalize a might-makes-right approach to global affairs that is the antithesis of international law.
Fifty years ago, another former law professor, Senator Wayne Morse, condemned such arrogance of power. "I don't know why we think, just because we're mighty, that we have the right to try to substitute might for right," Morse said on national TV in 1964. "And that's the American policy in Southeast Asia - just as unsound when we do it as when Russia does it."
Today, Uncle Sam continues to preen as the globe's big sheriff on the side of international law even while functioning as the world's biggest outlaw.
Rather than striving for an evenhanded assessment of how "international law" has become so much coin of the hypocrisy realm, mainline U.S. media are now transfixed with Kremlin villainy.
Comment: Note how the UK government first fired Rock before he was seen being arrested, then ensured the story would not break for a month.
Keep in mind that it may yet turn out that this particular Tory has been 'thrown to the wolves', as happened the last time someone was falsely accused (Lord McAlpine) in an effort to blow smoke over the existence of Britain's high-level pedophile network.
See also:
Confirmed: British Labour and Conservative governments in 1970s gave elite pedophile network nearly half a million quid
Panic among UK leaders as high-level pedophile network is covered up: BBC Newsnight program suspended for naming senior Conservative pedophile
More evidence emerges of powerful pedophile network at apex of British establishment
Jimmy Savile scandal exposes pedophile network at heart of British establishment