"Ironically, a unilateral U.S. threat to use force—plainly illegal under the UN Charter—is now justified as law enforcement. (Neither the U.S. nor Russia have mentioned another, lesser, irony: both countries missed the April 2012 deadline for destroying their own chemical weapons, and the U.S. Army has announced that it will not complete the job until 2023. As my colleague David Koplow has shown, both countries are at least technically in breach of the very treaty they have forced Syria to join.)"
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Ironically, U.S. is in breach of the very treaty it forced Syria to join
"Ironically, a unilateral U.S. threat to use force—plainly illegal under the UN Charter—is now justified as law enforcement. (Neither the U.S. nor Russia have mentioned another, lesser, irony: both countries missed the April 2012 deadline for destroying their own chemical weapons, and the U.S. Army has announced that it will not complete the job until 2023. As my colleague David Koplow has shown, both countries are at least technically in breach of the very treaty they have forced Syria to join.)"
