The Iraq Crisis

The Iraq Crisis The recent military action against Iraq by the USA and Britain has plunged the world closer to large-scale war than we have been since 1945. The question is, why have the USA instigated such actions? In my opinion, and in the opinion of any rational person, these attacks have been unnecessary and have constituted an attempt by a ludicrously weak president to divert attention from his domestic struggles. In the last twelve months, …

…was far from the brutal invasion of a neighbouring country that the US portrays it to be. Iraq has had a constitutional claim to Kuwait since Kuwait was part of Iraq. That Iraq should wish to take Kuwait back is understandable. It is far less easy to sympathise with the American supported invasion of Nicaragua in the 1980's or the plain desire of the US to take over the world by economic and military superiority.