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Letter: Don't risk leaving Saddam alone

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020925
Author:Gerard Kilroy Bath

Sir: What are kingdoms, if they do not work within the structure of international law but bands of robbers? Saint Augustine illustrates his question in The City of God with the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great, and asked why he terrorised the high seas. " Why do you terrorise the whole world?" The pirate replied. "I am called a pirate because I terrorise the sea with a small ship; you, because you do it with a huge navy, are called an emperor." The Prime Minister should submit to the verdict of the United Nations, not the ambitions of the United States, if he does not want to ...

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