Etc. again as we all see this was written in 2003…and what have we learned?The next few days will be decisive for the outcome of the Iraqi crisis. Let us pray, then, that the Lord inspire in all sides of the dispute courage and farsightedness.
The political leaders of Baghdad certainly have the urgent duty to collaborate fully with the international community to eliminate every reason for armed intervention. To them I direct my urgent appeal: the fate of your fellow-citizens should always have priority.
But I would also like to remind the member countries of the United Nations , and especially those who make up the Security Council, that the use of force represents the last recourse, after having exhausted every other peaceful solution, in keeping with the well-known principles of the UN Charter.
That is why, in the face of the tremendous consequences that an international military operation would have for the population of Iraq and for the balance of the Middle East region, already sorely tried, and for the extremisms that could stem from it, I say to all: There is still time to negotiate; there is still room for peace, it is never too late to come to an understanding and to continue discussions.
To reflect on one’s duties, to engage in energetic negotiations does not mean to be humiliated, but to work with responsibility for peace.
Who said we were stopping? Bush, Obama, and Trump’s drone war is a series of thousands of war crimes and all three deserve to spend the rest of their lives imprisoned in The Hague.Well, let’s not stop there.
I Too Fact Is,Having served in the military, I know there are few people who are against war more than those I served with, for a very simple reason: we know that it is our lives, individually and collectively who are the first in line to be killed.
The murder/assassination was against the tenets of just war doctrine, the CCC.I completely support the military strike on Soleimani as an act of war against an unjust aggressor, not only against the US and Israel but also against a multitude of non-combatants in the Middle East and I find the labeling of that as an “assassination” to be intellectually, factually and morally a lie.
So you are changing what you said, “They killed one of ours, so we killed one of theirs so that we could make peace”?It’s not about an eye for an eye.
Yeah, well their aggression preceded our aggression preceded their aggression, etc etc. We have also learned that we cannot attack them without repercussions, and this time the repercussion is that Iraq wants us out of there completely.It’s about letting the Iranian government know that they can’t attack us without repercussions.
So you are buying the idea that now the US is popular there because Iran accidentally shot down an airliner? Where did you get that?Iran admitted accidentally shooting down a civilian airliner, and now the protests in the streets are “Death to the dictator,” and “USA is not our enemy.”
Not sure what you are talking about. Perhaps “militants not wearing uniforms” are what we actually call “civilians”. Shouldn’t we all complain about airstrikes on civilians?Neither is Iran in any position to complain about militants who do not wear uniforms being targets of airstrikes.
lol gonna need a citation on this whopperand now the protests in the streets are “Death to the dictator,” and “USA is not our enemy.”
The past 10 - some say 18 yearsThe murder/assassination was against the tenets of just war doctrine, the CCC.
Some are protesting the airliner accident, not Soleimani. And no one’s defending him, just noting that if his assassination was justified then, for example, there are hundreds if not thousands of U.S. officials who other countries would be justified assassinating.It’s pretty amazing that people are still trying to defend General Salami even though the Iranian people have no love for him and are actively protesting the brutal, totalitarian, evil regime he fought for.