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Originally Posted by DanaC
It's not acceptable to just invade a country and then point to what the dictator did a decade earlier and say "see, that's why".
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We have established your position: if they gas people, and then STOP, once they stop it's no longer "currently in progress", and at that point it's against "international law" to invade or otherwise violate their "sovereignty".
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Why did we not attempt to do something about Iraq when they were engaging in ethnic cleansing? Why did we not attempt to do something about Iraq when the opposition within the country tried to overthrow their dictator on the understanding that we would all help?
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Can you think of an event between those difficult and terrible situations, and 2003, that might have changed the global response to such things?
Think hard.