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- From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
- Newsgroups: alt.desert-storm
- Subject: Re: no-flyzone
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:55:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
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- In-Reply-To: amartin@ucs.indiana.edu's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:08:51 GMT
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- In <amartin-270193140413@lib102b-565556.lib.indiana.edu> amartin@ucs.indiana.edu writes:
-
- > This is in response to the no fly zone....
- > What right does a country, or an organization, have to partition another
- > country
- > up & then tell its leaders they can not operate in that part of the
- > country.
-
- The more hard-nosed among us might say "force of arms". I suppose we need
- a section of the UN charter spelling out the rights of the occupiers now.
-
- > It is thier bloody country; not the UN's; not the US's. It's time that the
- > arab peoples gained full controll of their own land back.
- > I don't condone the acts of Sadam Hussain but I can not support telling
- > another leader that he is not free to operate in his own country.
-
- Look, folks. It's not all that hard to understand. Try it this way:
-
- Some individual (Iraq/Saddam) kidnaps someone (invades Kuwait). The police
- (UN/Coalition) capture the individual (Iraq/Saddam) and free the captive
- (Kuwait). The criminal (Iraq/Saddam) must be punished. So they are imprisoned
- (sanction/no-fly zones, what have you). There are rules to be allowed in order
- to be allowed freedom again. When the criminal (Iraq/Saddam) breaks these rules
- or refuses to follow them, then the jailors/guards (UN/US and allies) impose
- more punishments (air raids/no fly zones) and/or extend the jail time.
-
- It's really quite simple. I am continually amazed at the general lack
- of understanding the simple concepts of dealing with bullies and criminals.
-
- > The US has too long of a history medeling in other countries affairs..
-
- Ad hominem applied to a nation-state? Blah, blah, blah. US actions in
- the past have nothing to do with current debates over the rightness or
- wrongness of actions in Iraq.
-
-
- semper fi,
-
- Jammer Jim Miller
- Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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