[thechat] what if ...
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Mon Feb 17 09:39:01 CST 2003
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Erik Mattheis wrote:
> My dad brought up this scenario/question to me last night:
>
> US attacks Iraq w/o UN approval.
> Iraq is a member of the UN.
> Would other UN countries technically be obligated to retaliate against
> the US?
Or to put it another way, replace 'Iraq' with 'Kuwait' and 'US' with
'Iraq' and compare...
Cheers
Martin
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