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JilesDM:
So Cuban revolutionaries initiate hostilities and the US responds by declaring war on Spain, including a Pacific conflict? That's an awful stretch to justify.
Just to make sure I have this right:
The US occupies their territory, declaring it US owned.
Revolutionaries attack the US occupation forces.
The US is justified in repressing them because hostilities were initiatied by the Filipinos.
Is that your position?
I haven't argued this one
That's a gross oversimplification- are you aware of the previous (FDR era policy) before the post-war US leaders started to change it around? Nevertheless, I didn't give it as an example specifically because it's so complicated.
I'll have to read the UN document again to see its opinion on invading a country when its internal political process starts to fall apart.
I didn't say anything about Iraq, particularly part 1.
Never mind the fact that the US was the group that gave those gentlemen their education in the resistance/terror business, or the fact that a link to their government wasn't actually proven for the attacks the US used as an excuse to invade them.
Stilton
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