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By Sarah Joseph, published 23/3/2011Is the law on humanitarian intervention an ass. Should unilateral humanitarian intervention be allowed?
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Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 24 March 2011 4:05:50 AM
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If getting rid of people like Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, and Emporor Bokassa 111 are "against international law", then "international law" is a joke.
It really is funny watching left wing, limp wristed Euros struggling to come to terms with the idea of waging an "illegal war" for "humanitarian reasons". These were the same sods who never tire of hurling brickbats at the USA when it did exactly the same thing in Iraq.
Best of all, I heard on today's news that Obama was telling the Euros that the USA was not going to do anything more than drop a few bombs. This time the Euros can show some balls and do the job themselves. I never liked this Obama bloke, but if he has told the Euros to grow up and fight their own wars, then my opinion of him has now changed.
Nothing short of an infantryman in Gaddafis office pointing his rifle at him is going to make any impression on Ghaddafi, and the Euros must now be figuring this out. Could you imagine Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Luxembourg and Turkey putting in a joint Army invasion force without the yanks leading the way and taking most of the casualties? The only thing that these guys can agree on is that everything the yanks do is wrong.
A NATO invasion sans the USA would be highly amusing too. Because the NATO troops fighting an "illegal war" would be fighting for a bunch of Muslim Arabs who hate the Euros guts, and who only six months ago were cheering Ghaddafi and his airplane bomber who murdered 270 People at Lockerbie.