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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (4471)2/3/2001 6:58:25 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
"we would also have not have gone to war if there was no invation."

That is true, but do you really think that it is true because to enter that war without an invitation would have been "wrong", or "immoral"? It isn't, of course. We needed an invitation from a contiguous country simply because without one we'd have had no place to assemble our forces and support mechanisms.

Remember that a good deal of diplomatic effort went into arranging that invitation.

Even if we had the ability to invade without any invitation from a contiguous country the US would have been extremely unlikely to intervene. For the politicians making the policy morality may or may not be a direct factor in that but it is an indirect factor. Politicians care about popularity and getting reelected. Most Americans would not have supported an invasion of Iraq to grab its oil even if it was known that it would be easy. In the past this might have been different but I am talking about now (or at least the time of the Gulf War which is recent history).

Tim
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