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The Kremlin could then argue that it was not a Russian invasion, but the will of the people living in Crimea.
We rightly oppose the
invasion
of one country’s territory by another.
Cradle of ContradictionsThe American-led
invasion
of Iraq was supposed to begin a process of transformation across the Middle East.
These developments, of course, follow from the US-led
invasion
of Iraq, which turned a vague and distant threat into an imposing neighbor whose intentions towards Syria's Baathist regime are anything but friendly.
Since its
invasion
of Crimea a year ago, Russia has continuously and gravely violated the United Nations Charter, numerous international treaties, and international humanitarian norms.
But, elsewhere in the region, leaders were quick to excuse Russia's
invasion
and annexation of Crimea, or to argue that Russia is simply too powerful to confront.
For example, the UN could not prevent the
invasion
of Iraq in 2003, but the absence of its imprimatur greatly raised the costs to the American and British governments.
For example, Dag Hammarskjold seized the opportunity of the Suez Crisis created by Britain and France’s
invasion
of Egypt in 1956 to persuade governments to create peacekeeping forces – an institution that is not mentioned in the UN original charter.
Qatar, a small peninsula off the coast of Saudi Arabia, allowed its territory to be used as the US military headquarters in the
invasion
of Iraq, while at the same time sponsoring Al Jazeera, the most popular television station in the region, which was highly critical of American actions.
Those who had doubts about George W. Bush’s
invasion
of Iraq were “appeasers,” akin to Neville Chamberlain.
While Mexico had a petroleum-based boom in the wake of the second oil-price shock of the 1970’s, Argentina suffered from economic mismanagement under a military dictatorship that then staged its disastrous
invasion
of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas.
What is the message to Muslims of the US-led
invasion
of Iraq in 2003?
The World Bank and other foreign donors supply half of the Ugandan government's budget, but a third of the money is wasted on senseless military actions such as Uganda's
invasion
of the Congo.
Was the 2003 United States-led
invasion
of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq illegitimate because it was predicated on a falsehood about the existence of weapons of mass destruction?
Unfortunately, equating the current situation in the Caucasus with the Soviet Union’s
invasion
of Czechoslovakia in 1968 does not attest to this kind of realism.
Poorly considered American interventions, especially the
invasion
of Iraq in 2003, have exacerbated the region’s myriad animosities and security challenges.
The last such maneuver, Caucasus 2008, was followed by the
invasion
of Georgia.
Sixty years after the
invasion
of our country by Hitler's Wehrmacht, and thirty-one years after armies of the Warsaw Pact crushed the Prague Spring, our security is becoming an integral component of the security of the entire Euro-Atlantic world.
Although the direct threat of
invasion
and occupation has diminished, sinister forces still loom and must be confronted.
The United States-led
invasion
of Iraq put an end not only to Saddam Hussein’s rule, but also to Sunni-minority control, established by the British generations ago.
An American war against Iran is plausible only as a response to a blatant and immediate Iranian challenge to vital US interests, such as a major terrorist attack, an
invasion
of an ally in the Gulf, or disruption of the free flow of Middle East oil to the West.
The Palestinian intifada, the terrorist attacks against New York and Washington in September 2001, and the
invasion
of Afghanistan and Iraq propelled Al Jazeera to global influence.
Wolfowitz’s pre-Bank claim to fame was his role as an architect of the Iraq war, arguably one of the greatest strategic debacles since Napoleon’s
invasion
of Russia.
But Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, after deliberating for a few days, decided that an invasion, though militarily feasible, was not worth the risks.
The ancient city of Kaesong sits in a shallow valley just to the west along the Demilitarized Zone, on a traditional
invasion
route for troops heading north or south during more than two millennia of Korean history.
Unsurprisingly, when set on this path, it also became the chosen refuge of Osama bin Laden and of the Taliban leadership that fled Afghanistan after the US-led
invasion.
For its part, China repeatedly violated the eight-year pact, ultimately mounting the trans-Himalayan
invasion
of 1962.
Saudi jihadis were at the heart of the mayhem that killed hundreds of thousands in the years immediately following the 2003 US-led
invasion.
It was a miscalculation comparable to that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who launched an
invasion
of Iraq on the erroneous assumptions not only that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more important – that post-Saddam Iraq would quickly become a stable democracy.
Nicaragua was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia following last summer’s Russian
invasion
of Georgia.
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