Why do people decree ';State Sovereignty'; a reason for not deposing Saddam ??

Why do people decree ''State Sovereignty'' a reason for not deposing Saddam ??

Why do people decree ''State Sovereignty'' a reason for not deposing Saddam ??

The most ridiculous argument an activist or diplomat can make in defense of a dictator like Saddam Hussein is that the tyrant cannot be deposed because of his nation Sovereignty. The notion that America did not have the authority to overthrow one of the worst dictators (over 1,000,000 civilians killed during his reign ) that ever walked the face of the earth because of state sovereignty is absurd.

Based on that logic : Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan are unable to be touched because they too are sovereign nations.

The genocide in Rwanda, for example, has been mourned theatrically in retrospect 鈥?Europeans especially will weep over corpses, but will do nothing to protect those still alive. In America we call this cowardice!

The sole purpose for any government is to protect its citizens. A state that kills its own people has no legitimacy! NO MATTER WHAT THE TYRANNT RIDDEN UNITED NATIONS SAYS. Knowing what we all no now about the mass graves and torture chambers, WMD attacks, and countless other severe infractions of鈥?international law鈥? how can any moral person state that Saddam should have been left alone?

Sovereignty cannot be an excuse for uninhibited savagery. Saddam was a HITLER to his people. People who objected to the removal of Saddam Hussein鈥檚 regime on grounds of state sovereignty are the moral descendents of those who looked away from Hitler鈥檚 crimes. The difference today is that those who condone mass murder pose as moral arbiters and demand to know what right America has to decide which governments are tolerable and which are not. The answer is simple. 鈥淲hen the forces for good fail to act, the forces of evil triumph.鈥?And America is the worlds essential force for good. No amount of fashionable anti-Americanism will change that. And though we may not always have the blessing from the rest of the world to depose dictators, tyrants, murderers and terrorists we will surge forward and do what we know is right. The world will be better for it.