By David Swanson, Director, World BEYOND War
Remarks at No Bases Conference in Dublin, Ireland, November 18, 2018
I’m willing to bet that if I asked everyone in Ireland whether the Irish government should take orders from Donald Trump, most people would say no. But last year the Irish Ambassador to the United States came to the University of Virginia, and I asked her how allowing U.S. troops to use Shannon Airport to get to their wars could possibly be in compliance with Irish neutrality. She replied that the U.S. government “at the highest level” had assured her it was all perfectly legal. And she apparently bowed and obeyed. But I don’t think the people of Ireland are as inclined to sit and roll over on command as their ambassador.
Collaboration in crimes is not legal.
Bombing people’s houses is not legal.
Threatening new wars is not legal.
Keeping nuclear weapons in other people’s countries is not legal.
Propping up dictators, organizing assassins, murdering people with robotic airplanes: none of it is legal.
U.S. military bases around the world are the local franchises of the greatest criminal enterprise on earth!
And NATO involvement doesn’t make a crime any more legal or acceptable.
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