is replicating some of the same mistakes as in 2003. It’s amazing how history repeats itself.
Previous note: The two regimes, the old one of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the one in Iran, are bloodthirsty, indefensible dictatorships. That is not what is at issue. But relations between States and the use of force have rules that must be respected, otherwise the world will become chaos.
The intervention in Iraq in 2003 was considered a violation of public international law by most legal experts and organizations. It is also now seen as aggression, which violates the United Nations Charter. Bush still sought and failed to obtain authorization from the UN Security Council to carry out the invasion, Trump, who calls himself the president of peace, didn’t even try.
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