{"id":7998,"date":"2014-09-11T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2014-09-12T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:09:05","slug":"independent-scotland-wont-join-anti-is-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/independent-scotland-wont-join-anti-is-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Scotland won’t join anti-IS coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alex Salmond – fiddling while Iraq burns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An independent Scotland won’t join an American\/RUK coalition to defeat Islamic State, the Scottish First Minister has just said.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question from Laurence Lee of Al Jazeera,\u00a0Mr Salmond said in a press conference today that Scotland would only support military action against Islamic State if\u00a0it were sanctioned by the United Nations. \u00a0Presenting this as a ‘lawful’ way of going about things, it rules out action specifically requested by Iraq and puts an impossible obstacle in the way of intervention.<\/p>\n

‘We will only participate in military action which has been sanctioned by the United Nations in accordance with international law,’ the First Minister\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Mr Salmond added: ‘It is a vital matter and one in which we are being successful that we hold our own communities together in a difficult international circumstance’. \u00a0He went on to say that the Muslim community of Scotland are ‘a vital part of our community and are not in any way responsible for the atrocities of the Islamic State and indeed have roundly condemned such atrocities in forthright terms.’<\/p>\n

Community cohesion was an interesting context into which to place his opposition to action against Islamic State.<\/p>\n

THE PURPOSE OF THE UNITED NATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Salmond raised the matter of the illegal invasion of Iraq, saying quite rightly that there was no United Nations sanction for it.<\/p>\n

The need for\u00a0a United Nations resolution would be perfectly valid in the context of the invasion of a sovereign state by another sovereign state, as was the case with the US\/UK invasion of Iraq. \u00a0The UN was founded to prevent war in the wake of the destruction of World War II. \u00a0The UN Charter prohibits member states of the UN attacking other UN member states. \u00a0That is central to its purpose. \u00a0The United Nations deals, well or badly according to one’s perspective, with affairs between nations, or criticises or supports the actions of nations.<\/p>\n

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Iraqi Ambassador His Excellency Faik Nerweyi has asked the UK for military assistance to defeat Islamic State.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It can also call for peace between rival factions in a sovereign state or call for stability, as it did in Resolution 2103<\/a> <\/strong>over instability in Guinea-Bissau. \u00a0In Resolution 1701<\/a><\/strong>, it called for the withdrawal by Israel from Lebanon. \u00a0Calls in the Resolution for the cessation of hostilities by Hezbollah against Israel and the territorial integrity of Lebanon were inserted at the request of those country’s allies balanced the resolution.But the rise of Islamic State, a rogue army arising and invading sovereign states, is quite different. \u00a0There seems to be little precedent for a United Nations resolution for military action against some rag-bag international movement, however powerful or well-funded it is. \u00a0(Check out this\u00a0list of recent UN resolutions<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

If a sovereign state requests the help of another state in an internal emergency such as the one faced by Iraq, and is not doing anything remotely hostile against its own citizens, that state does not appear, under international law, to require the permission of the United Nations to come to its aid. \u00a0That is why people who were completely opposed to the invasion of\u00a0Iraq, such as ourselves, are strongly calling for the UK and the US to help Iraq with military intervention against Islamic State now.<\/p>\n

There is a big difference between the two and it is strange that Mr Salmond cannot see that.<\/p>\n

SCOTLAND WILL FIDDLE WHILE IRAQ BURNS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Given that Iraq has actually asked the United States and the United Kingdom for military assistance against Islamic State, Mr Salmond is saying that Scotland will not help the\u00a0Iraqi government to recover land lost to the Christians around Mosul, ancient Nineveh, even though the Iraqi government has requested it. \u00a0Scotland will insist on a United Nations resolution. \u00a0Of course Scotland would not immediately be a member of the UN in any case, and would need to apply, as Israel did in 1948,\u00a0and a resolution on defeating Islamic State in Iraq will not be forthcoming.<\/p>\n

So an independent Scotland under Salmond will fiddle while\u00a0Iraq burns. \u00a0That\u00a0is very sad if it is indicative of future foreign policy of an independent Scotland under Mr Alex Salmond.<\/p>\n

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