-- On 18 Dec 2003 at 19:09, J.A. Terranson wrote:
And all of this is meaningless: we simply had no right to invade a foreign, *sovereign* nation.
Although you probably do not know it, you are invoking the rules of the peace of Westphalia. The Soviet Union never respected the peace of Westphalia. After the election of Ronald Reagan, neither did the US, and the US has never resumed respecting it, so that stuff is ancient history now. National Sovereignty, like the divine right of kings, just is not taken seriously any more, and the only people weeping big salt tears about its passing are those who enthusiastically hailed all the Soviet violations of it as wars of national liberation. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG MG21u2rXbbd8Gv6a0KI33gOfB0dq3Rj0+8QLf9Zu 475GB3UNm+fRK0Tmju1skiWzb5gB5QGgnIdyidhHM