[lbo-talk] Obama and the Cult of Personality

[Matthias Wasser]

"(And in Iraq 2003, were not the Bushies enforcing long-neglected UN
resolutions that an "international community" was too corrupted and
cowed to enforce, and thus in fact prosecuting the universal will?)"

Of course, or at least that's how the administration tried to frame
it. That was an orthogonal sell to the national security/preemptive
war sell, though.

Ten-tenths of the law is what you can get away with. With
international law it's just more obvious.