On 1 Aug 2002 at 2:56, kharin wrote:
>
> "Which is why we are continuously diplomatically massaging them
> (Powell just visited both, and cross-border hostilities have recently
> lessened). "
>
> That's not quite what was referring to. I'm sure the US has done
excellent work in seeking to mediate, as have a number of other states.
My point was simply that pre-emptive defence is a right that anyone can
lay claim to, and which is likely to have a very large number of
repercussions that are not intended by the US. You have written in the
past that the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in a number of states was a
blowback resulting from the policy pursued against the Soviets; can you
be certain that the same will not happen through the current actions?
>
It's going to happen anyway. The very rejection of the supremacy of
Islam and the Shar'ia as a model for constitutional governance is itself a
causus belli in the eyes of the rabid Dar Al Islami Ummah.
>
> Without a framework of international law any state lacking America's
military power would be in a precarious situation; if threatened it would
have to rely on the US for protection, which, on past form, the US would
refuse to provide unless its own interests were threatened.
>
In this case, just as with the Soviet case, the US sees itself threatened
globally, and for good reason. The only law that the adversaries
recognize is Shar'ia.
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