But now Washington in a loud voice, and London more quietly, preach the virtues of an imperialism without responsibility – each making the case for putting their own narrowly-conceived national interests first, regardless of the international damage that might follow.
The social costs of Duterte's tirades and attempt at geopolitical rebalancing cannot be captured in terms of lost opportunity in military assistance, nor in terms of international reputational damage alone, but in terms of long-term societal costs that come with the normalization of crises as ordinary events.
A scan on the joint the Republic of Ireland international damaged in the friendly defeat by Villarreal on Friday showed he has torn a ligament.
The result, critics of this administration contend, has been a disastrous loss of international support, damage to American credibility, the sullying of America's image and a devastating war that has already taken more than 1,000 American lives.
Mr. McNamara's agency has been on the receiving end of violence, most recently last weekend in the Serbian part of the northern town of Mitrovica, when six peacekeepers and one policeman were injured, 39 vehicles of international groups damaged and four houses and one warehouse burned in protests at the return of Albanian refugees.
And critics who thought their new Liberal prime minister's lack of international experience would damage Denmark's stint in the EU presidency have been proved wrong.Mr Fogh Rasmussen has positively blossomed in Brussels.
Nevertheless, it is an established tenet of international law that damage to civilians must be "proportionate". That means that the benefit you would gain from hitting your legitimate military target has to be weighed against the anticipated cost in innocent lives and destroyed property.
Lest this case become an example of international law causing damage to the constitutional rights that both of our clients hold dear, I respectfully request that your client agree to stipulate to the application of American constitutional law to this case".
"The United States has been unable to give us arguments to convince us that they see clearly how to solve the problems of international security without damaging disarmament agreements which have stood for 30 years," Mr. Yakovenko said.
In its report for 2000, the Worldwatch Institute cited the dangers it had foreseen in 1984 -- "record rates of population growth, soaring oil prices, debilitating levels of international debt and extensive damage to forests from the new phenomenon of acid rain" -- and lamented that "we are about to enter a new century having solved few of these problems".
