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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (112566)8/24/2003 9:35:43 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
We live in a world that considers unilateral attacks to be illegitimate -- and rightly so. The US invasion of Iraq is 100% unilateral. The US invaded and occupies a country that did not attack the United States and posed no threat to the United States. We did not attack in self-defense. We did not attack to enforce UN sanctions. We attacked unilaterally -- it was a policy decision and not an act of self-defense.

If I see you walking down the street and decide to shoot you in the face -- that is unilateral action -- it is an unprovoked one-sided attack. The concept of shooting you in the face while holding the hands of my friend (Great Britain) does not make it any less unilateral. Saddam conducted a unilateral attack on Kuwait. If Saddam had Syria cooperate with the attack it would still be unilateral.
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