The Precedent Was Set In The Balkans
by Peter Erlinder
In April 1999, just after the United States and NATO launched their air war to punish Yugoslavia for sending troops into Kosovo, its independence-minded province, the Star Tribune published my op-ed piece under the headline “NATO action unwisely undercuts U.N.” The article warned that the well-established principles of national sovereignty, upon which the U.N. Charter and international law are based, were too important to be set aside when it suits powerful nations, no matter how well-intended..........
ENTIRE ARTICLE- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/16/11028/
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