Blair and the ICC

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It's only 'honest' in the way it lays bare the atavistic vileness of the current US administration's mindset. You would be similarly 'honest' if you killed someone in a hit and run and said 'To be honest it doesn't really matter that much to me'.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 15 April 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

the equation of an avuncular appraisal of a legal situation to one of the value of a human life is very blankly ad hominem, and somewhat too expected for me to be offended.

anyways
"(Perle has a vacation home in the South of France)"

might be the real scoop there

― duke goodnite, Thursday, 15 April 2004 07:22 (twenty years ago) link

an avuncular appraisal of a legal situation

Why 'avuncular', Dan? The Columbia professor quoted is an anti-war campaigner. Out of all the evidence in that article, you grasped at his adjective 'honest' as though it were some sort of vindication of the Bush regime. Now you're using this word 'avuncular' like the prof was offering Bush a cigar and patting him on the back.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 15 April 2004 07:34 (twenty years ago) link

Or perhaps you meant that Richard Perle is your uncle?

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 15 April 2004 07:37 (twenty years ago) link

Widdle Dukey just saw the word written somewhere by clever people who knew its use and thought 'wow, one day I might be able to use this on an inteweb message board and my sheer effrontery will shock them all and win the day!' If indeed the series of chemical reactions inside the sack of meat and bones which is Dukey adds up to a common definition of 'thinking'.

(See dear, that's an ad hominem attack. Chiz for playing)

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:20 (twenty years ago) link

you're right suze, i also said "equation," which i think is wrong. "equating"? help me out, brits. i don't know "chiz" either, but once i learn it i'll file it away for strategic sheer effrontery on inteweb message boards in the future

― duke bones, Thursday, 15 April 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

o wait is it "cheers"? must be. yeah with 'avuncular' i was referring to perle, who i think deserves the titular adornment. yet what we really have here is an instance of epistemological iteration, colored by the onset of drowsiness on my part, and thus my abject failure in winning the day. chiz.

― duke meat, Thursday, 15 April 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

twelve years pass...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gambia-says-it-is-leaving-international-criminal-court-1477483387

― Mordy, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link

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