America Rules!

This post has to do with a post I want to do on how America views the world and their notions on how America is the greatest country in the world. I will write that post someday. Let's just call this what they do in the strip clubs; a cock tease.

I don't know if you have read or heard about this but Spain was thinking about prosecuting top Bush aides for what they claimed were acts of torture of five Spanish citizens that were held in Guantánamo.

It is now being reported that Spanish prosecutors will recommend against opening an investigation into whether six Bush administration officials sanctioned torture against terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the country's attorney-general said Thursday.

Which brings me to the conservative website Hot Air. I am using them as an example because this is how a lot of people in this country think. After quoting some of the text from the associated press report linked above the author of this post wrote this:

"Spain likes to consider itself omnipotent in criminal matters. They have the notion that they can apply “universal justice” by trying people for crimes committed outside of their own sovereignty. That’s a tremendously arrogant notion, one that challenges American sovereignty in this case. We declared our independence from European oversight 233 years ago, and we don’t answer to Spanish courts. The proper channel for issues concerning public officials between two sovereign nations is diplomatic, not prosecutorial."

This is typical American thinking if you ask me. All this talk about Sovereignty like we are the greatest country ever (as a country we aren't bad I guess but take a look at where the U.S. ranks in most major categories such as life expectancy, education, health, but more on this in another post). True we did declare our independence years ago (not from Spain) but we are responsible for following the Geneva Conventions which says torture is bad. I am sure if the shoe was on the other foot instead of people crying about holding Spain responsible for torturing a U.S. citizen we would call for bombing them.

I get so sick of this antiquated notion that America can do anything they want and other countries can shut up and take it. Somehow the fattest nation who is responsible for such iconic things like the blanket with sleeves, Creed and Red Bull can go on about Sovereignty but I guess this is what happens when people are fed a steady diet of steroid injected fast food and Fox News (and Hot Air).

"If Spain moves forward, the Obama administration must defend American sovereignty by imposing stiff diplomatic consequences for this national insult."

So let me take a stab at this. The past administration endorsed tactics that are defined to be torture and these tactics were implemented on Spanish citizens who were probably innocent so their country wants to hold us responsible for such actions and that is the national insult? I would think the national insult would be that America as a country uses acts of torture that have been proven to be ineffective and people still champion it but apparently Spain is at fault here. I mean fuck, I meant to say America rules!

(I should also say that this Ed Morrissey also says in his article that Conde-Pumpido as saying that this was a political issue when in fact it was one of the human rights lawyers who brought this case to Spain who said his decision was politically motivated.)

And how about this for a laugh. Check out the comments section. this one jumped out at me:

DL13: Isn’t Spain the country that murdered millions of Indians in North/South America during the 1500-1800’s? Perhaps we should have sent our Gitmo guards to them for training, or something. OK, just kidding on the suggestion…..

Because The United States has a great track record when it comes to treatment of Native Americans. Ok, just kidding... I mean seriously what the fuck.