SA80: Is This The Worst Rifle Ever Made?
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Christopher Hitchens – On the fascist “anti-war” movement 2005
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Christopher Hitchens destroys all popular arguments against Iraq War
13 Apr 2019 2 Comments
in defence economics, economic history, energy economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gulf war, Iraq war
Saddam thought Bush 43 (and 41) were bluffing and told so many lies that no one believed Iraq when it tried to be truthful about destroying its WMD and the documents proving it destroyed those weapons in 1991
06 Mar 2019 3 Comments
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From CIA review
Saddam thought the first Gulf War weapons inspections would be cursory and soon go away but then was soon trapped forever in his own web of lies
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Atomic weapons, Gulf war, Iraq
In the first of many miscalculations, Saddam expected the weapons inspections to be cursory and short lived
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in defence economics, International law, law and economics, war and peace Tags: arms control, Gulf war, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons
Christopher Hitchens | The consequences of ‘anti-war politics’ [2005]
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So @NZGreens support Gulf wars 1 & 2?! The punitive mission to Afghanistan?
08 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, politics - USA Tags: Afghanistan, Gulf war, New Zealand Greens, Syria civil war, war against terror
The first Gulf War had UN security council approval. The 2nd Gulf War was approved in a way that provided employment to legal pedants and more importantly, just enough political cover for the Chinese and Russians back home and with their low-rent allies to avoid their veto.
The New Zealand Greens cannot go on about multinational responses than oppose wars with UN security council approval.
Naturally, the Greens opposed NZ participation in the Afghanistan war despite its clear-cut UN authorisation. NATO and other mutual defence treaties were specifically triggered after 9/11.
The USA and others were and still are at war with Al-Qaeda; they can use force against that enemy and those who harbour them. The Taliban was warned. A Wiki has this nice quote by Stone (1921):
When the territorial sovereign is too weak or is unwilling to enforce respect for international law, a state which is wronged may find it necessary to invade the territory and to chastise the individuals who violate its rights and threaten its security.
The 9/11 terrorists were air pirates. NATO and allied military entered Afghanistan to subdue the home base of these brigands and those that harboured them:
- Naval and military deployments against pirate’s lairs date back thousands of years.
- The first war of the USA was with the Barbary Pirates in 1801 to 1805, with another war in 1815. These pirates waged war against the shipping of other nations, seized cargoes and ships, and sold captives into slavery.
- Punitive expeditions against bandits were commonplace too, such as chasing Pancho Villa and his gang of bandits back into Mexico in 1916.
- The U.S. military recently attacked a Somalian maritime pirate camp to rescue hostages. EU naval forces have also attacked these pirate lairs to destroy boats and supplies.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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