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The flaw in the "wait for UN approval" argument. by slayer2003-03-18 01:02:39
  Actually.. by NuclearWinter2003-03-18 01:11:30
    I hope we look like mean evil people. by slayer2003-03-18 01:17:23
      Don't give up on humanity so easily. by skeptic2003-03-18 01:26:09
        This is very true by jedidiahstott2003-03-18 02:46:59
          I don't think what you're saying here is fair... by chatgris2003-03-18 03:08:43
            It is a matter of respect for the law by jedidiahstott2003-03-18 03:33:00
              With that in mind by buddha2003-03-18 08:26:05
                The US is establishing a dangerous precedent by LurkerMo2003-03-18 10:53:17
                  Setting a precident? by Arcanum2003-03-18 11:48:18
                    The precedent of a country being able to by LurkerMo2003-03-18 12:41:00
                      Not really by slacktime2003-03-18 12:51:42
                        I mentioned Iraq and Kuwait as an example by LurkerMo2003-03-18 13:09:58
                          50 years of tradiition? by slacktime 2003-03-18 13:23:51
As afghanistan is the ONLY example of an attack being sanctioned through the UN, that makes the tradition... a few years old.

Since the UN was formed only responses to attack have been coordinated at the UN level, and those have all been more recent. The Vietnam conflict had no UN oversite that I can find at all. Korea is similar. The troops in Korea are still US troops and not UN peacekeepers. How about Falkland Islands? Hmmm, Granada?, Russian attack of Afghanistan?, I hope that the UN did serve as a international place of diplomacy in all these conflicts, but I do not know that it did. And I very much doubt that any of the conflicts I've named had UN sanction before the first act of aggression occurred.
[ Reply ]
                            Understand LurkerMo by slacktime2003-03-18 14:14:56
                              I believe that the danger of what the US is doing by LurkerMo2003-03-18 15:23:42
                                Please, look at history for a second. by chatgris2003-03-18 15:38:24
                                I'm glad that you have such faith in the benevo- by LurkerMo2003-03-18 16:14:34
                            The fact that no UN sanction existed is by LurkerMo2003-03-18 15:14:07
                            Self defence is different from attack. by Vetitice2003-03-18 16:40:28

 

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