The Oxymoronic Déjà Vu of Humanitarian Bombing in Syria
... but remember the false intelligence on which the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was founded; Saddam Hussein did not in fact possess weapons of mass destruction. The parallel is inescapable. In May, Carla Del Ponte, leading member of the United Nations Independent ... ... nerve-gas Sarin. This means two things. First, there are indeed double standards regarding the US stance towards the use of chemical weapons and its justification in support of a military intervention. If the use of CWs is truly a ‘red line’ ...
07.09.2013