Personal ethics and global decay

The Ukraine is apparently populated by spirited underdogs willing to fight back against a regional bully with nuclear capacity.

 

Palestine is terrorists hiding behind refugees.

 

This is not natural law, nor is a policy based on ethics anyone else on the planet can understand.  If we had a long history of observing treaties and International Law, perhaps we'd have some standing there.

 

Alas, no one trusts us to keep treaties (and many of our allies have had their treaties and business contracts wrecked by our random wars, it might also be noted…check with the French, for instance), and we're one of three nations on the planet that will not ratify the global treaties on Civil and Human Rights. 

 

We are trapped by our daily disrespect for family, life, and our own abandoned ideals. 

 

But half of us are armed to the teeth.  That's strength and power, right?  (Or maybe just a lot of very small penises?). Rule of law be damned.  Unless you're Russia. Those guys better behave, right?  Bad bad people…