Impiger,
Of course you are right, though the intervening powers involvement in that “democratisation” would cast the morality of such a move in a state with no previous history of democracy into some doubt! You have however, acknowledged that with your orchestration point, so it is being rather petty to agree but still point out that there is still a “war that isn’t a war going on there.
Squirrel41,
Yes, I broadly agree; what actually happened in no way invalidates what should have happened nor discredits the original aim of those who created such treaties.
BTW; an ageing Barrister in my very junior days warned me always to be wary of a man who uses the term vitiate in every day conversation as; “he is a man who knows the language and how to use it selectively to include those he wants and, more importantly, also to EXCLUDE those he wants!”
Uncle Ginsters,
Yes, how simple, and HOW TOTALLY and REPUGNANTLY WRONG!
(OK, where'd that post go?)