[lit-ideas] Re: dealing with the Slobodan Husseins
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:50:31 +0900
On 2005/07/21, at 2:37, Eric Yost wrote:
JM: What all of these arguments evade, of course, is the principle
of international law that forbids invasion of a sovereign state's
territory in the absence of a prior attack from that state or,
stretching a point, a clear and present danger.
EY: But in a war, almost anything can be cited as a "clear and
present danger." How about the British pre-emptive intervention in
Iraq in 1941? The Nazis were planning to secure the country so as
to disrupt the Egypt-India air routes of the Allies.
Interesting one, that, since Iraq was not the country at war with
Britain. Those were, of course, still the days of Empire, in which
people did all sorts of things of which we do not approve now.
John
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