"Who can stop a people determined to be rich without productive labor, and with a self-obsession capable of subordinating even heaven to their personal greed and vanity? This will end in an ocean of tears."
Jesse, 9 Nov 2009
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception