Antony Anghie Quotes
Self defense is the most difficult element of International Law.
Antony Anghie, International Law Scholar, “Bush Preemption Doctrine & the United Nations,” C-SPAN, April 3, 2004
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The United States should be One major problem at the time was that the Soviet Union was supporting and instigating revolutions in many parts of the world. When most nations of the UN wanted to provide peace keeping troops to quell the conflict, the Russians would veto and block the effort, Vandenberg wanted the UN to change the rules regarding the veto. The original right of veto for the major nations was originally included at the insistence of the United States and many Americans did not want to give it up or have any exceptions lest there be more. The Russians at that time also did not want to give up any of their veto powers. Another method that Vandenberg wanted to solve the Russian peacekeeping blockage problem was for America to engage in more collective security pacts so that action could be taken without UN Security Council unanimity by going around the UN.
The Justice Department had sent a memorandum arguing that since Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups did not represent any state, were not signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and commonly committed atrocities in violation of the Geneva Conventions, then there was no obligation for America, or any signatory nation, to protect captives of these terrorist organizations. See {589866} for a contrary position that was taken.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
Antony T. Anghie is a law professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law. He was previously the Samuel D. Thurman Professor at S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah and continues to serve as Professor at the College of Law. He has been visiting professor at numerous schools including the American University Cairo, Cornell Law School, the London School of Economics, Harvard Law School and the University of Brasilia.
