Originally Posted by Rob B.
Marty, you didn't answer mine either.
"What if China bombs a boat in international waters with 11 Americans on board and claims they were drug traffickers?"

That would be an egregious international incident if it could be proven that they were just tourists out toolin' around in open water.

However, if I the US was a completely corrupt nation and was 40 percent controlled by cartel shadow govts with organized militias or a guy like Maduro...I would know, based upon decades of experience that those guys in that boat were overwhelmingly likely to be drug traffickers and not tourists out on a lark. I suspect that the intel on that boat was easy and clear.

Related to that, I have little sympathy for these people like the basketball player who are dumb enough to enter places like Russia, China and N Korea, illegally and/or with illegal substances in their possession. If they are going to FAFO, the outcome is theirs to deal with, as far as I am concerned.

NOW...if "international law" is a righteous PRINCIPLE that should be complied with at all times regardless of particular circumstance...and not just a partisan double-standard hack pulled out to support tribal political conformity when convenient...answer my questions in red above regarding "Obomber."

Marty

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