Problem is, you using the term "I think." I understand perfectly well what Chips is trying to say, and of course can see exactly why you agree with him. But let's forget the smokescreen ....
YOU and Chips think we should apply HIGHER standards to ourselves, not just same. It's obvious in his post. Your extremism is so blatantly obvious it's just a joke.
Not higher standards, the same standards.
We want to make our own laws and have domain over our own domestic policies...so does every other nation and we need to back off and allow that as we expect people to do that for us.
Here is a good example...lets take Iran.
Now here we are and we need to place ourselves in the SAME position that we put Iran in and then see how we would view those same actions that the US have committed.
Lets say that in 1953 the Iranian govt overthrew our govt and installed a dictator who was willing to cater more to Irans needs than the US's and that in the decades of this Iranian installed dictator we suffered horribly under his brutal policies against any of us who dared speak up or challenge his dictatorship.
We finally get the momentum up and we rise up and overthrow this dictator and install our own govt. The one we install is certainly far from perfect but it is OURS and done by US, the people. Iran has many criticisms of our govt but its really not their RIGHT to say is it?
Then Iran backs Canada in an uprovoked invasion of us. We are now at war because Canada attacked and Iran is one of the nations helping to supply aid (weapons, chemicals, logistical support etc). Then Canada starts using chemical/biological warfare on american towns and people are dying in horrific ways and we go to international community but Iran wont condem it and in fact Iran and its allies are HELPING to supply the chemicals Canada is using against us.
We fight for many bloody years and we manage to maintain ourselves and not be defeated, but the human cost is HUGE. We suffered, all of us have lost someone in this horrible battle.
Then some years later Canadas leadership isnt doing what Iran wants..so Iran invades them to change the regime. So Iran is now attacking our neighbor and has its military on our border and is currently making more threats claiming we are making nuclear weapons...(yet Iran has a large arsenal of nuclear weapons) and we arent building them nor do they have ANY evidence we are...but they threaten us anyway. We allow inspectors in, the inspectors say we arent building weapons and can find no evidence that we are. Now Iran just ignores this and keeps accusing us anyway and Iran and its powerful allies now want to sanction us and keep threatening to invade us.
Iran calls us aggressive but it is them who overthrew our govt and installed a brutal dictator, it is them that backed our neighbor in an aggressive war against us, it is them who supplied and condoned biological warfare against us, it is them who have huge stockpiles of wmd, its them who are invading nations based on false claims of WMD and now are sitting ON OUR BORDER with their military threatening us again and SAY ITS OUR FAULT and we ARE DANGEROUS!
How would you be viewing that? All I did was lay out exactly what has occured but traded places for Iran and the US.
If you apply the same standards, then you have to admit, its the US who is dangerous and exceeds its bounds legally as well as morally.