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Stilton · 09-15-2003, 01:51 PM

logos:
That's a bit of oversimplification for WWI.

JilesDM:
Oh, so we're introducing the UN definition? Resolution 3314? War and aggression had meanings long before the UN came along.

I don't necessarily agree with your definition completely (because of the various well-known problems of the UN), but it is telling that you referred me to a definition but then failed to show just how my examples failed to meet it.

Because I'm sure that you'll agree that the US actions in the cases I cited meet the UN criteria for being warfare*, please describe how those actions were justified under the UN charter.

Stilton

* part G covers Iran and some similar instances pretty well:
"(g) The sending by or on behalf of a State of armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against another State of such gravity as to amount to the acts listed above, or its substantial involvement therein."

09-15-2003, 01:51 PM	#49
Stilton Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 100	logos: That's a bit of oversimplification for WWI. JilesDM: Oh, so we're introducing the UN definition? Resolution 3314? War and aggression had meanings long before the UN came along. I don't necessarily agree with your definition completely (because of the various well-known problems of the UN), but it is telling that you referred me to a definition but then failed to show just how my examples failed to meet it. Because I'm sure that you'll agree that the US actions in the cases I cited meet the UN criteria for being warfare, please describe how those actions were justified under the UN charter. Stilton part G covers Iran and some similar instances pretty well: "(g) The sending by or on behalf of a State of armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against another State of such gravity as to amount to the acts listed above, or its substantial involvement therein."