Yeah but that helped give the Iraq invasion the appearance of legitimacy, at least at first, which allowed it to go on longer and cause more harm.
The unethical act in both instances is the attack or invasion of another nation, not a failure to go through proper channels. If it were, that would imply that invading another country and killing innocent people is justified or acceptable so long as proper authorization is given first, even if that authorization was based on knowingly false information.
It may have been based on lies, but they at least still were forced to get the decorum of legal authoirzation.
This time around it’s Trump literally saying “I am a dictator and I can bomb whoever I want, go fuck yourself.”
Yeah but that helped give the Iraq invasion the appearance of legitimacy, at least at first, which allowed it to go on longer and cause more harm.
The unethical act in both instances is the attack or invasion of another nation, not a failure to go through proper channels. If it were, that would imply that invading another country and killing innocent people is justified or acceptable so long as proper authorization is given first, even if that authorization was based on knowingly false information.