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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (41198)11/13/2005 3:41:35 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
"The Iraqi regime committed its most tragic and horrible crime from the beginning of the imposed war until now against the civilian people on Friday, 18th of March. On that day, Halabja was bombarded more than twenty times by Iraqi regime's warplanes with chemical and cluster bombs. That Friday afternoon, the magnitude of Iraqi crimes became evident. In the streets and alleys of Halabja, corpses piled up over one another. Tens of children, while playing in front of the their houses in the morning, were martyred instantly by cyanide gases"

This is what I am getting at. If civilized countries respond to such acts of inhumanity AT THE TIME as a matter of allied policy THEN I think there is much to recommend it.

Occam's razor satisfies my mind as to U.S. involvement in Iraq. Nothing to do with the internal genocide; everything to do with Sept. 11 and the decision to confine Islamic Terrorism. I'm not saying this was necessarily wrong; but I would rather see such violations of sovereignty linked to internal atrocities--with the civilized world united to oppose as a matter of open public policy.
Just as the Geneva Convention gave a moral and legal framework for prosecution across international boundaries--so would a similar Convention establish moral and legal grounds for violating sovereignty at a National Level.

There is no logical impediment to invasion for the good of humanity. We have simply not formalized such a policy yet. There will come a time when protecting innocent people from genocidal butchers is a matter of course...
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