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The days of America violating sovereign airspace are drawing to a close, thankfully. “The United States-initiated aerial bombing of targets inside the borders
by igravious 4y ago
The days of America violating sovereign airspace are drawing to a close, thankfully.
“The United States-initiated aerial bombing of targets inside the borders of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah which took place on April 15, 1986, was met with substantial and immediate criticism by the world community. The positive reaction from the U.S. congress and the American public was not shared by much of the world. Arab nations denounced the American action, as did the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. In meetings of the UN Security Council, countries denouncing the raid outnumbered those which supported it.
Good article: “American Bombing of Libya: An International
Legal Analysis” (1987)
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1722&context=jil https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
- closewith 4y ago> The days of America violating sovereign airspace are drawing to a close, thankfully. They're still overflying Afghanistan and who knows where else.
- arcanemachiner 4y agoI wouldn't hold my breath... The US launched an airstrike in an illegally-occupied (Syria) nation less than a week ago. https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/25/us-carries-out-airstrikes-in-syria-multiple-american-bases-attacked/ https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/25/us-carries-out-airstrike...
- oh_sigh 4y agoIllegally occupied according to who?
- Iwan-Zotow 4y agommm... to anyone who could read? I mean, could you say why us troops are in Syrian oil fields stealing oil?
- oh_sigh 4y agoUnder the laws of what group is American presence in Syria illegal? Is it American laws? The UN? Syrian laws?
- slim 4y agothe un
- igravious 4y agoBoth international law (the US has no UN mandate) and national/domestic Syrian law. “End America’s Illegal Occupation of Syria Now: Our presence there is a violation of domestic and international law that’s made a horrible civil war even worse.” https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-americas-illegal-occupation-syria-now# https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-americas-illegal-occupat...
- thepasswordis 4y agoAh yes, because surely when the US stops patrolling the seas and skies of this planet, nobody else will try. We will finally have our peaceful utopia once that pesky United States is out of the way!
- mardifoufs 4y agoYes because the US has to patrol the skies of libya, otherwise the entire world will collapse. See? Strawmaning an argument is very easy to do, I can do it too!