Hoover Institution | Stanford University Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer-winning New York Times journalist, on the influence of the past on himself, his family, the Jewish people, and America.
In 2003 the Iraq war w.m.d evidence was suspect for most people. Hence the Americans and Brits going outside of the U.N to engage in the Iraq war. This set a precedent regarding international law and institutions,. A hundred years from now I think historians will see this quite differently than how Bret presented this. Great podcast enjoyed the conversation.
The ‘International Commission of Jurists’ (Geneva) The invasion of Iraq was neither in self defense against armed attack, nor sanctioned by UN Security Council authorizing the use of force by member states, and thus constituted the Crime of War of Aggression.
The sad bit was touched on at the end of Roberts' biography of Churchill. A substantial percentage of kids in the UK now think Churchill is a mythical figure, but Sherlock Holmes was real. So many actual amazing souls lost...lost in some bizarre phenomenon that only be called Internet Affective Disorder 😂 As for Nigel Biggar's *Colonialsim, a Moral Reckoning,* it remains available. If indeed that's the book Andrew Roberts is referring to.
GW Bush 5/18/2022. “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,”. “I mean Ukraine.”
The publisher doesn't suggest that 'they can go' because at their base, they agree with the censorship. So, when they tell you that they support free speech, the truth is that they don't.
