Was United Nations coalition right in Fridays bombing of radar systems in Iraq?
Feb. 20, 2001 No: Actions will hurt Iraqis, not Hussein Friday’s bombing of five strategic points around Baghdad has refocused the nation’s eyes on Saddam Hussein and Iraqi-United Nation relations. President George W. Bush and his administration have proudly proclaimed this action was the continuation of a policy to enforce post-Persian Gulf War sanctions that began with Bush’s father and continued throughout the Clinton years. There is only one problem: this policy is flawed. The sanctions and military actions used to enforce them are against the American ideal of sovereignty of the people, first introduced by Woodrow Wilson in his 14 Points of Light following World War I. This idea is that the people within the nation should be able to decide how they are to be ruled. There is to be no interference from another country. ‘The rationale that the Bush administration gives is no explanation at all,’ said Hussein Ibish, spokesman for the American Anti-Discrimination committee in Washingto
