Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Whilst we wait for Saddam's stockpiles of WMD to turn up, various war-bloggers have decided that they aren't that important, and the war was justified on humanitarian grounds alone. Of course one of the major problems with this view is that it does rather push you towards supporting war in every continent.

Now obviously there are various ways to overthrow nasty governments that don't involve war. However it's a much more difficult call when our governments are actually friendly with nasty regimes. A classic example is Uzbekistan where aside from all the usual humanitarian outrages, an official British study suggests that two prisoners were even boiled to death, and yet senior US government officials (and I am sure other nations) regularly take time off to meet, greet and generally laud the ruling dictator.


posted by Matthew @ 6/17/2003 10:55:00 AM Comments: 0