From the point of view of international law, bombing a foreign country is far worse. The "crime of aggression" is one of the most serious violations of interna

From the point of view of international law, bombing a foreign country is far worse. The "crime of aggression" is one of the most serious violations of international law that exists. One of the foundational principles of the post-WWII order is that countries cannot go to war against other countries, except in self-defense (very narrowly construed) or with permission from the UN Security Council. What countries do within their own borders is much more their own business. > there's a reason the international community reacted one way to Syria and one way to the US invasion of Afghanistan. The reason is simple. Syria is not a powerful country, but the US is. Everyone recognized that the invasion of Iraq was aggression, and therefore illegal under international law. Nobody was willing to do anything about it, because the US was then the world's sole superpower.