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For my part, I would not have chosen to accept a one in three – or even a one in six – chance of a disaster that would have killed hundreds of millions and shattered our cities, even if the alternative were a Soviet
invasion
of Western Europe.
Now that it has detailed the extent of British culpability in the 2003 American-led
invasion
of Iraq, those implicated in the report’s findings are using two arguments to refute it.
The Kuwait
invasion
was reversed by Operation Desert Storm and other events that led the United States, the United Kingdom, and France to impose crippling sanctions and no-fly zones across large swaths of Iraq.
And even when Saddam had used chemical weapons years earlier – against Iranian forces in 1988, at the turning point in the war in the Faw Peninsula, and against Iraqi Kurds in 1991 – the international response had entailed, at most, a no-fly zone, not an
invasion.
He didn’t; and during United Nations inspections before the March 2003 invasion, there was no evidence of any additional WMD program.
The plain purpose of the 2003
invasion
was regime change.
According to the Chilcot report, at least 150,000 Iraqis (and possibly four times that number) have been killed in the years since the invasion, and an estimated three million people have been displaced from their homes.
One can only guess what the world would look like had the 2003
invasion
never occurred.
Like the UN presence in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, UNIFIL has given the UN a bad name: it never stopped terrorists from attacking Israel, nor did it stop the Israeli
invasion
of Lebanon in 1982.
Similarly, notwithstanding the pro-Russian leanings of some among Trump’s team, the US-Russian relationship also lacks strategic trust, owing to Russia’s military intervention in Syria, its
invasion
of eastern Ukraine, and its alleged interference in the US election.
As the world was watching the football games in Germany, North Korea was testing long-range missiles and Palestinians in the governing Hamas launched attacks on Israel that prompted a bloody
invasion
of Gaza.
Of course, Obama is not responsible for Russia’s
invasion
and annexation of Crimea, or for Putin’s massing of Russian troops on Ukraine’s eastern border in an effort to intimidate the government in Kyiv.
No country in the world deserved all three more, ravaged as it was for two decades by massive United States bombing, civil war, a genocidal reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge,
invasion
by Vietnam, and more civil war – with some two million dead as a result.
Following Russia’s
invasion
of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, EU countries implemented economic sanctions, including restrictions on credit to Russian banks and energy firms.
But the Japanese
invasion
five years later subjugated Burma and its people to colonial rule once again, with the conquering sweep of the Imperial Japanese Army checked only at Imphal, in India’s Manipur state.
So I remember my shock when I learned about the Soviet
invasion
of Czechoslovakia in August, and the trauma that lingered long after.
In August 1989, I proposed in the Polish Diet a draft resolution apologizing to the Czechs and Slovaks for Polish involvement in the 1968
invasion.
They call it a “conflict" or a “situation" instead of what it is: an
invasion
and a war.
They trumpeted France’s
invasion
by “Polish plumbers,” calling into question Europe’s two principal achievements: the introduction of a single market, which has undeniably boosted the French economy, and EU enlargement, which has done so much to foster democratic transition in new member states.
Moreover, the US response has strengthened Israel’s belief in the effectiveness of military methods, leading to the recent war in Lebanon and the ongoing
invasion
of Gaza.
The Iraq
invasion
was justified by the same use of fraudulent evidence as was displayed in Kosovo.
The United States’ original sin was its military
invasion
of Iraq in 2003 under President George W. Bush.
Moreover, with its
invasion
of Iraq, the US opened the door to regional hegemony for Iran and initiated a dramatic shift in its own regional alliances, the long-term effects of which – including the current nuclear negotiations with the Iranian government – are now becoming apparent.
Melting Pot or Economic MeltdownWorried about an
invasion
of migrant workers from the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the old EU members have erected high barriers in order to prevent the flow.
But understanding Russia’s frustrations and sentiments does not excuse
invasion
and annexation.
When Russia annexed Crimea last March, Kadri Liik of the European Council on Foreign Relations pointed out the marked difference in the way it handled its
invasion
of Georgia in 2008.
Yes, Russia’s
invasion
of Ukraine has led to more than 3,000 deaths.
Then, despite massive US pressure, Turkey's parliament unexpectedly rejected the government's proposal to allow US troops in Turkey to launch an
invasion
from Turkish territory.
Since the US-led
invasion
in 2003, Iraq’s political system has become highly polarized along sectarian lines, with the ruling Shia majority marginalizing the Sunnis, including the Kurds.
The
invasion
of Iraq in 2003 remains Exhibit A. But there are others, including the overreach (alongside the United Kingdom and France) of the UN Security Council’s mandate in Libya in 2011, and what Jessica Mathews has described as the “wasteland for multilateral commitments” in the US approach to binding treaties, including the Convention on Biodiversity, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Protocol on Torture, and, most relevant to the South China Sea, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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