Even cowboys need friends
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1423816,00.html
Bush and Blair's illegal war in Iraq has not made the world a safer
place - only respect for international law can do that
Philippe Sands
Thursday February 24, 2005
The Guardian
In its effort to remake the global rules America has not acted alone.
The legacy of Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill's visionary
Atlantic charter, which led to the establishment of the United Nations,
is now in the hands of the Atlantic cowboys, George Bush and Tony
Blair. When Roosevelt and Churchill sprang their charter on the world
in the summer of 1941, the threat to the two countries was of a wholly
different order. And yet, 60 years on, an American president can show
contempt for international obligations, in actions and in words: "I
don't care what the international lawyers say."
Philippe Sands
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