Re: Re: By the way, Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Highfield" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Re: By the way, Bill


> Peter,
>
> I agree that Britain was in a similar situation as the United States.
> The Balkans were not our problem, but we had to do the heavy lifting -
> again.  I just thought that Europe should have taken the lead instead of
> sitting around watching genocide waiting for the US/UK to step in.

I do not call refusing to commit ground troops to the region "doing the heavy lifting".


> Either way, my opposition to it didn't lead me to declare it an "illegal
> war" even though the UN washed it's hands and to my knowledge never
> sanctioned the war.

The fact that you did not declare it illegal did not make it legal.

FWIW, I believe the illegality of the Kosovan war is actually *more* clear cut than that of the Iraq war, since 
a case could be made that the Iraq war was self-defence *if* our leaders actually believed the spin they were 
trying to sell us. No such case can be made for Kosovo.

Regards
Peter

PS. A website discussing the legal basis of the Kosovo conflict can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia



 



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