RangerDave wrote:
Rynar wrote:
The organization is detrimental to American sovereignty.
And why is that a self-evidently bad thing?
Because as much as we complain about our own government, it's still preferable to living under practically any other one out there, and certainly better than one that's an amalgamation of the various idiotic excuses for governments that make up most international organizations.
They really serve no purpose except to act as a way for international busybodies to stick their noses into other nations' buisness, perpetuating the illusion that international law is actually law, and worst of all, promote the stupid idea that the world can actually be effectively governed by a central organization or even by nations answerable to one.
Or, to put it another way, it's a way for Europe to exercise colonial power all over again without having to spend the money to actually colonize. They just engage in a lot of hand-wringing and lecturing, and since they have a bunch of mostly like-minded countries with their own snot-nosed little international union to get them all ont he same page, they use that vote block to dominate the organization.
This is just like all the various Latin American countries getting together to gang up on Britain over the Falklands, creating the impression that since there's 28 or so of them and one of Britain, that they must be right by appeal to popularity. They haven't got a chance in hell of taking them back forcibly, so they try to create the impression Britain is being unreasonable by getting a bunch of countries together with ethnocentric appeal.
By the way, I wasn't proposing actually killing anyone at the WTO unless they fought back. There's no need for gratuitous bloodshed. Obviously this isn't going to happen; the logistical problems of attacking a building in Geneva Switzerland are pretty much insurmountable, and Obama would never do it anyhow. If it weren't in such an inconvenient location though, and I were President that A) we're withdrawing, B) our subsidy will be going away anyhow and C) any attempts to actually enforce any decisions of this organization will meet with very unpleasent consequences.