Re: [POLITICS/IRAQ] Thank God for the death of the UN (Article)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 18:48:44 MST

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    Doug Thayer wrote:
    > Turkey invaded northern Iraq in 1993,1995, and 1997 (and possibly after).
    > See the following urls:
    > <http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/kilo/kurd1991.htm>
    > <http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/kurd-l/1997.Jun/0011.html>
    >
    > To the best of my knowledge, these three invasions (40,000 troops each
    > time) did not result in a single security council resolution. So much
    > for "the breakdown of international law". It never functioned in the
    > first place. I guess if Turkey can invade Iraq willy-nilly, why not
    > the US?

    Okay, fair enough. I withdraw my example of Turkey's current presence as
    an instance of the breakdown of international law. And indeed, many
    posters have made a strong case that there was never really an
    international law to begin with.

    I'm still sad, though. It seems like a tender shoot was trod into the
    dirt before it could become a tree, even if it wasn't a tree already.
    International law wouldn't have arisen from nowhere. It would have to be
    built, step by step. The repulsion of Saddam from Kuwait in 1991 was a
    step forward, and this is a step back.

    Oh, well. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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