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Still a Bad Idea
Continued from page 1
Published on April 03, 2003
And lastly, nothing since March 19 takes the edge off the queasy feeling one gets every time the U.S. war in Iraq is dressed up as the actions of a “coalition.” To be sure, Tony Blair is in deep, with thousands of British troops in harm’s way, and there are a decent number of Australians in the soup as well. But the rest of the “coalition” is a gaggle of smallish countries (some tiny, actually) with little if any military assistance or financial support involved. Several coalition members are not themselves free or democratic, and as many as a fifth of them are listed by the U.S. State Department as having poor overall human rights records.
The legal, political, economic and ethical merits of this ill-advised war were no greater once it began than on the day before. It remains a very bad idea that seems more likely to compromise global peace and security than to assure it into the future.
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