At 16:24 22-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
A country's self-defense is an internal matter, not an UN matter. However, invading an other country is an act of aggression, not self-defense.Where in the UN charter does it say that a country must gain permission before defending itself?
Your suggestion, that a country should wait until its borders were its borders were crossed would fail the Chamberlin test.
The what? I have never heard of the Chamberlin test.
England does not have borders with those countries, so when Hitler attacked them, England was not under attack.That is to say, by that rule, England should have done nothing while Hitler took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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