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Originally Posted by bhamlaxy
First, Iraq was justified in many ways, a good portion of them ignoring sovereignty. All of the "Saddam is a murderer" and all that jazz denies Iraq sovereignty. We all know Iraq had no WMD's, and had nothing to do with 9/11, thats the official policy of even our own government. I'd rather not get into the messy debate about whether or not the main planners of the Iraq war actually knew they had nothing before going in, since there are no solid facts, just speculation, but if they knew there was no involvement, it would most definitely lean my way, so thats just one potential example. But either way, arguments that deny Iraq sovereignty have been used to justify it.
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That's all well and good, but you brought up Kuwait. That means we're talking about desert storm, not the current operation in Iraq.
The current operation we went in under the excuse that Iraq was partly resonsible for 9-11 and they were making wmds in violation of UN resolutions and repreented an imminent threat, making a strike justified. This wasn't true of course, but if it had been action would indeed have been justified.
In something like Dafur, there's no such justifications that can be used as an excuse to go in. Many in congress have called for military action, but it hasn't gotten anywhere.
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In response to the second part, the world was an extremely different place back then, a completely bipolar world. And the political atmosphere has changed. Ever since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 there has been the echoing "Never again", yet it's happening right now, and unfortunately there is no powerful truly socialist country around.
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China could send troops. They're still somewhat socialist, and they may not have the logistics to support an operation on their own, but many contries not willing to send troops themselves would be willing to support other nations who do with logistics. Of course they're too busy funding the people commiting the genocide in Darfur to do anything to stop it.
Oh and just where did all the guns and rpgs that were used to turn africa into the nightmare it currently is come from. Somehow I doubt the US was the one who supplied all these groups with massive quanities of AK-47s.