[extropy-chat] can't war protesters do better?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> Are you referring to the colonial period in comparison to the US
> empire building in Iraq? Or the recent Ivory Coast intervention?
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/ivor-f12.shtml
> 
> "France has received international backing for its intervention in
> its former colony, Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) where a civil war has
> been raging for five months. The United Nations Security Council
> passed a resolution that “welcomes the deployment of Ecowas (Economic
> Community of West African States) forces and French troops” and
> endorses the peace agreement signed by both the government and rebels
> in the current civil war."

So you admit that France PREEMPTIVELY invaded a sovereign nation
(ECOWAS showed up after the fact), then RETROACTIVELY got the approval
of the UN?

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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