Saddam seems to have made the decision to invade Kuwait in quite unilateral fashion, Tim .... this is one legitimate sense of the term 'unilateral', according to my dictionary here - 'pertaining to, affecting, or proceeding from only one of a number of sides or parties to a controversy, transaction, etc'
Which sense of 'unilateral' pretty much sums up the PNAC permawar doctrine, especially as it applies to this war on Iraq - it was cooked up quite unilaterally in the back rooms of Washington, then marketed to the US public using all the 'Things related and not' catchphrases, then shoved down the throats of would-be allies using a variety of forms of bribery and bullying that can be summed up in the most unilateral obscenity 'yer with us or yer agin us'
Unilateral, all the way .... there is precedent of course - 'Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer'
'Consider Hamilton’s warning in Federalist 75 about the
powers of the president in foreign affairs, a warning of particular
relevance today: “The history of human conduct does not warrant
that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in
a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind,
as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world,
to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as
would be a President of the United States.” '
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