Wombat wrote:
Google "the Lavon affair" or the "USS Liberty"
THEY attacked US! Just weeks ago they boarded a US flagged ship in international waters and shot an American teenager through the head.
A flag of convenience is not a mark of sovereignty. It is neither an exemption to boarding, nor a mark of diplomatic immunity. It does not confer territorial benefits.
The first point: you can not float your boat into harbor and expect to subject only to the laws of your home country. The same goes for international waters.
The second point: if it were true, the somalis, pirates and terrorists would simply purchase American flags and laugh in the face of law. Hell, they are laughing already.
Third: you couldn't anchor a ship off shore from say, Israel, rape some women, smoke a big bowl of weed and expect to have American law applied just because you fly an American flag.
Forth: you couldnt set up a hospital ship in international waters, sell maternity services to foreign women and expect that they would gain American citizenship. That dog dont hunt.
Its sad that some kid had to die, but the boarding itself was not illegal.
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