Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

Look we agree on the qualities of the regimes being attacked. Neither myself nor you are going to mourn that Saddam or the Iranian regime got hit. This parts in isolation are not in question.

But as we have seen the large majority of the suffering resulting from these wars is for the innocent. You can't isolate the two.

This is why there is International law that states that there needs to be a consensus before one is launched. It means that a rogue state can't just launch a war which is inherently an evil act (because of what it means to the innocent) without sanction.

What you are tacitly saying is that, it's okay, Donald Trump is allowed to decide who deserves to be attacked without sanction . . . that's why it's important. This is a man who has threatened to annexe Canada, "wipe out" an entire civilisation and invade Greenland already. Now he's been given the green light effectively to attack Venezuela and Iran.

It's the breakdown of the International rules-based system and the suffering of the innocent that mean, for me, it is a long way from being as simple as "Well Saddam / the Iraqi regime are evil" so we can do what we like.