{"id":325,"date":"2001-11-06T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=325"},"modified":"2001-11-06T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-07T01:00:00","slug":"school-bully-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/11\/06\/21\/00\/school-bully-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bully Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the current US carpet bombing in Afghanistan &#8220;self-defence&#8221; as allowed by the UN to member states? According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/foley1.html\">this article<\/a>, no. What I find interesting is that the international law standard that limits the legitimate aggression of states stems from a 1837 when the US, weaker than it is now, complained that some British soldiers had unjustly destroyed one of its ships (the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonian.com\/history\/articles\/1801-50\/burning%20of%20the%20caroline.html\">Caroline<\/a><\/i> as revenge for American raids into Canada during the little-known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/thri\/barracks.htm\">Patriots&#8217;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danorr.com\/webster\/webster_ashburton_treaty.html\">War of 1837<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In those days, as the weaker party, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/www\/about_state\/history\/time4.html\">United States was eager to establish and abide by international law<\/a>. I suppose it&#8217;s natural how the tables have now turned and the 70-lb weakling has turned into the school bully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the current US carpet bombing in Afghanistan &#8220;self-defence&#8221; as allowed by the UN to member states? According to this article, no. What I find interesting is that the international law standard that limits&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}