wab, the minute the US doesn't have to play child-care provider to half the world, you can whine about the ICC. But when there are hundreds of thousands of Americans sitting in the Balkans, Middle East, east Africa, and central Asia, doing what the rest of the world can't and doesn't want to do, no one's going to tell them they can get shipped off to the Hague when some crackpot warlord decides to play the international law game. The Court's been a joke from the beginning -- the US is the only nation capable of enforcing its orders, yet it was set up in a way that makes it all too easy to be abused at the expense of American troops the world over.
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Originally posted by lini
It was always criticized, that the Irak wouldn't let UN weapon inspectors in. Now it turned up, that the Irak has already invited the inspectors for a while - but they're not coming... |
lini, get real. The inspectors' stays in Iraq have been about as revelatory as a guided tour of the CIA complex: they get too close to anything, and out they go. Saddam's played that game from the moment the last M1A1 left his godforsaken sand, and no one (except you, apparently) expects anything different this time around.
The US
is going to invade Iraq. Congress has been seriously considering whether to debate the logistics of a war or to leave Bush the initiative. Basically we're just waiting for something that will let the Democrats feel like this is their war, too, then it's off to Baghdad. Look for a 1991 redux within a year and half.
Now, things are more complicated than that, of course -- for instance, none of Iraq's neighbors will allow the US to use their soil for a staging ground, not even Kuwait (which, nevertheless, fully supports the deposement of Saddam). I suppose we'll have to see some sort of "international coalition" (i.e., the geopolitical version of a cheering section) before anything really gets rolling. But roll it will.
As for afterward -- lots of people are already planning the new Iraq (another indication that there will be one). The president of the Iraqi National Congress is in Washington right now, if that's any indication. A post-Saddam Iraq really could be a mess, though -- there really isn't anyone like a Hamid Karzai to throw up as temporary head-of-state, and then there are lots of other issues, too -- no one wants a Kurdistan, for sure.
But anyway. I'd still like to hear from some of you Europeans (or other non-North Americans) why the US should not go to war with Iraq.
kerelybonto