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- From: dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
- Newsgroups: alt.desert-storm
- Subject: Re: no-flyzone
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:21:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.232327.7899@csus.edu> vpcsc11@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (student) writes:
- >In a previous message, a militarist named Dan Swartzendruber writes:
-
- Fascinating. Because I criticize a hodge-podge of badly constructed
- sentences composed of misspelled words, I'm a militarist.
-
- ::Learn basic spelling and grammar skills. Then you can come back and
- ::play with the big boys.
- ::
- :
- :Hey Dan,
- :
- :If you're such a "big boy" when it comes to engaging in articulate and
- :informed debate, why don't you let us know how you can justify the
- :illegality of U.S. actions in the gulf.
- :
- :The following article (reprinted from the SF Chronicle) says that the
- :U.S. exceeded UN resolutions in the attacks on Iraq. How do "big boys"
- :like you respond to this?
- :
- :***
- :
- :UN Lawyers Back Iraqi View - Attacks Not Authorized
- :
- :The United Nations' legal department says it sees no language in
- :existing UN resolutions that would give the United States, Britain
- :and France authority to enforce the no-fly zones they have imposed
- :in Iraq - including the area involved in yesterday's [1/21/93]
- :incident.
- :
- :The interpretation by the U.N legal staff, first reported
- :Wednesday, on whether the allies have authority to enforce the no-
- :fly zones came as a surprise and appears to bolster Iraq's case -
- :at least technically - that the coalition's actions may be illegal.
-
- Let's see. In my dictionary, an illegal action is one which is
- forbidden by law. Okay, we're cool so far...
-
- :The allies traditionally have based their enforcement actions on
- :U.N. Security Council Resolution 688, which condemns the Iraqi
- :government's repression of minorities like the Kurds and Shiites.
- :They argue that enforcement authority is inherent in the language
- :there.
- :
- :But the UN interpretation is that because the resolution was not
- :enacted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which authorizes the
- :use of force to maintain international peace and security, it
- :contains no enforcement power.
- :
- :Even so, U.N. officials conceded yesterday that the advisory ruling
- :probably does not mean that the allies must stop using military
- :power to enforce the resolution.
- :
- :"It's not our function... to tell a member state how to define a
- :resolution," one official said.
-
- So it's up to us to decide how to enforce it? Doesn't sound very
- illegal to me. So amartin can spell, and you can't apply basic
- logic. Hmmmm, seems like a tough choice.
-
- :(Reprinted from SF Chronicle, 1/23/93, p. 2)
-
-
- --
-
- #include <std_disclaimer.h>
-
- Dan S.
-