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Originally posted by The Hunter of Jahanna:
The same can be said for other countries. If they want to maim and torture their citizens who are we to stop them?? It is none of our buisness. Telling another countrie how to run its affairs is likely to get you shot, much like telling Z how to run his forum will quickly get you banned.
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A small point to get you thinking - international law is de facto based on "might makes right". A sovereign nation is considered sovereign
only so long as it can defend it's national territory by force of arms.
If diplomacy fails (country #1 says "you are abusing your people and we would like you to stop" country #2 says "piss off"), and countries disagree than the
only way to resolve this is to go to war - something the US has done to Afghanistan, and this is
perfectly legal under international law.
So essentially, if the US really wanted to stop a given country from torturing it's citizens, it could if it had the intestinal fortitude to do so.