"It's natural that the United States earns the ill will of other nations. They have committed a lot of outrages," 78-year-old Jose Schroeder told Mexico City's Reforma newspaper in a man on the street interview [...] "The U.S. is to blame for this because they were never concerned about the anger they raised in other countries," said Ana Paula Brasil, 28, a set-design student in the drama school in Rio de Janeiro. "They are responsible for deaths across the world and caused unwarranted pain in other countries with its economic policies ..."
Somehow, I don't believe that the US will try to invoke whatever section of the Rio Treaty that's comparable with Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. To be sure, I don't know what help Central and South America and the Organization of American States would be in any event -- it's not as though any of them are military or intelligence powerhouses and they're a very long way away from anything we'd be doing. Nonetheless, you do get the impression that even asking the question would be more than usually pointless. Although it might be fun, in a truly grim way, to watch the countries squirm away from the prospect.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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