"Licensed" to do everything

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"Uncle Sam" believes it can be used as a tool for "politically motivated or frivolous suits" against US troops. US 'peacekeepers' so far have been exempted from prosecution. Washington is hell-bent on renewing it.

Now US troops can do whatever they wish. They can build Abu Ghraib in every corner of the world. The US administration will be there to save them from 'politically motivated' charges.

Human rights, ethics, morality...these words sound a little weird when Americans utter them.