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The US doesn't have any military bases in Iraq. The Japanese could certainly ask us to leave, and we would. But they don't, because except for a vocal minorit
by tsotha 13y ago
The US doesn't have any military bases in Iraq.
The Japanese could certainly ask us to leave, and we would. But they don't, because except for a vocal minority they do want us there.
And Afghanistan is a war zone. I wouldn't consider that anything but an occupation. Which, I might add, they brought on themselves, so I don't have much sympathy.
- EliRivers 13y agoYes indeed, legally declining to extradite someone totally justifies being invaded and occupied.
- hga 13y agoThe Taliban, assuming they weren't in league with al-Qaeda, violated Niven's Law 1b, "Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man."
- tsotha 13y agoIn this case it was. Absolutely. One of the duties of a government is to control what goes on in its territory. Legally we had an iron-clad casus belli.
- EliRivers 13y agoLegally, the UN charter and thus US law makes it clear invading another country can be done in self-defense or by approval of the security council. Neither of those conditions were met. Legally, you're talking nonsense. The U.S. government knew this. They labelled Taliban troops terrorist-supporters rather than soldiers so that they could ignore the law. Invading a country and bombing big lumps of it into oblivion and then occupying it for a decade because you fear a handful of non-state actors who might or might not be inside it; both illegal and fucking ridiculous, and far more damaging to the US than a grown-up response would have been.
- tsotha 13y ago>Legally, the UN charter and thus US law makes it clear invading another country can be done in self-defense or by approval of the security council. Neither of those conditions were met. Nonsense. That's as clear a case of self defense as you're going to find.