Re: (> Iraq ) Law Scholars appeal to UN Secretary General

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 15:05:40 MST

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    --- Greg Jordan <jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu> wrote
    >
    > If a "Uniting for Peace" resolution were adopted by the General
    > Assembly threatening military retaliation or economic sanctions
    > against the United States, would the world's largest military
    > powers break into a new set of alliances in order to enforce it?

    WWI started when Austro-Hungary punished Serbia, a client state of
    Russia, for the assasination of its heir by a Serb. Russia declared war
    in response, which Germany responded to, which France responded to,
    etc...

    In this case, Iraq is a client state of France, Germany, and Russia,
    all three nations which need their trade with the US far more than the
    US needs trade with them. Since all three nations seem to be making
    their decision to oppose us specifically on commercial interests, logic
    follows they will continue to follow the money trail and will not
    declare war on the US, a trading partner they need far more than they
    need Iraq. Should they be stupid enough to do so despite the logic,
    they will find they really have no military capability, even combined,
    short of their ICBM nuclear forces, which in any way challenges the US.

    So there you have it: they are both industrially and militarily weak
    compared to the US, and their exploitable natural resources are far
    less. WWI and WWII were only won because the industrial might of the US
    was brought into the picture.

    THe only wild card would be if China decided to jump into an anti-US
    war alliance.

    Face with such might, we wouldn't be alone. We'd have the UK,
    Australia, Japan, Spain, and a number of eastern european nations, plus
    we'd have a window of time before the anti-US forces could mobilize to
    force a reformation of middle eastern governments along democratic
    lines with pro-US parties in power. Heck, Canada might even get off
    it's tush.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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