Saturday, October 06, 2018

U.N. court, laughably, orders U.S. to dump sanctions - Washington Times

U.N. court, laughably, orders U.S. to dump sanctions - Washington Times:

You had me at the headline.
Image result for flickr commons images John Bolton“U.S. ordered to lift some Iran sanctions by International Court of Justice,” blared NBC News, above its Associated Press story.
Ordered is a pretty funny word, given U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton’s recent takedown of another global judicial body, just last month.
Bolton, in fiery September remarks in Washington, D.C. — delivered first in the context of discussing the International Criminal Court’s attempt to investigate U.S. military members for war crimes in Afghanistan, and second in the context of responding to this same court’s call to haul Israel in for human rights’ abuses against Palestinians —

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