| as far as i know, the decision to go to war wasnt taken by the nation, not even by the majority of the ruling majority. it wasnt supported by the international community either. that makes it unlawful inmy books.
as far as the numbers advanced for the people SH had killed, he has yet to be trialed for it. There is more propaganda in there thanwe can ever imagine. what is for sure, is that the number he has killed will never equate the number of vietnamese killed only 10 or 15 years eariler by the US. remember the legacy of agent orange ! that's not that far back.
At the end of the day, SH wasnt taking any **** from his people. The country was in such a fractured state that this was one way to rule it. i am not saying it was the most human, but he had order.
And he is not, by far, the most brutal dictator living today. people seem to forget that. north korea springs to mind ?
so lets forget about the humanitarian b*llsh*t. the US dont do humanitarian. they could have saved 3 times the number of innocents, for a tenth of the cost by going into ethiopia. i'd like to see them do that on a similar scale, then we'll talk about humanitarian missions.  |