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Fire When Ready, de Cuéllar

If there was ever a copybook crisis offering every known liberal justification for American military intervention, it is the Gulf crisis. It features: a ruthless military dictator, the risks of nuclear proliferation, a threat to peace in the region, the illegal annexation of a small state, the suppression of the human rights of its citizens with rape, torture, and murder, the repeated condemnation of these actions by the United Nations, a UN vote endorsing international “police action” against the aggressor, and the successful construction of a multinational alliance to implement the resolution. Every liberal condition of every liberal speech made on every United Nations Day for the last 45 years has been met.

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Fire When Ready, de Cuéllar

If there was ever a copybook crisis offering every known liberal justification for American military intervention, it is the Gulf crisis. It features: a ruthless military dictator, the risks of nuclear proliferation, a threat to peace in the region, the illegal annexation of a small state, the suppression of the human rights of its citizens with rape, torture, and murder, the repeated condemnation of these actions by the United Nations, a UN vote endorsing international “police action” against the aggressor, and the successful construction of a multinational alliance to implement the resolution. Every liberal condition of every liberal speech made on every United Nations Day for the last 45 years has been met.