Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Emperor movie quote


A great line from 2012 movie, Emperor, neatly summarizes the past 100 years or so, & the current international chaos UK, US, & other European countries have caused in the world. These countries cause an uproar when one country, e.g. Japan in World War 2 or any other country (Iraq "invading" Kuwait in 1991, Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Russia annexing parts of Ukraine etc.) does the exact same thing which they themselves (US, UK, & other European countries) have been doing for the past several decades.

US goes into Iraq & kills thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians & then says, "oops, my bad ... I thought Iraq had WMDs." No criminal prosecution against American leaders. Russia takes parts of Ukrainian territory & North America to European leaders are up in arms.

**Disclaimer: I am not favouring any one country over another or one country's aggression over another. I am saying that international law, if it is being applied, then should be applied equally over everyone.

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