But once the United Nations - as they are today, with the dominant influence of the U.S., not the United Nations of tomorrow, once the European Community will have realized it is a value as well as a market, once the U.S.S.R. and China will have realized that democracy is something more than a FIAT plant on the Red Square or on Tien An Men Square - had chosen the solution of armed intervention, then I believe the Italian Government would have made a serious mistake not to join in. In the absence of any credible alternative proposal (even the most "advanced" ones, such as Mitterand's proposal for a peace conference, which would have represented a sure political success for Saddam Hussein, vanished due to Iraq's intransigence), it was a necessity to choose the solution of international legitimacy. Armed intervention is a mistake, but sabotaging it without suggesting any alternative other than Saddam Hussein's political and military victory is an even worse mistake.Today I am still firmly convinced - as I stated in an address at the European Parliament last Wednesday - that the embargo solution is the most feasible and effective one. Quoted here below is the text of an amendment I had drafted to the motion of several Green, Communist, Labour and Green Arcobaleno members of Parliament: "The European Parliament -A- Considering that resolution 678 of the U.N. authorizes but does not prescribe the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait, and that the continuation and the escalation of hostilities could aggravate and extend the conflict, with inestimable consequences for the military, the civilians, the environment and the economy; -B- Believing that the issue can be solved with non-military means and with the use of sanctions; -1- Asks for the immediate, unconditioned withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait, also with the purpose of sparing further destructions and sufferances to the Iraqi population; -2- Asks for a unilateral "cease-fire" on the part of the allied forces
, in order to return to the strict application of the embargo and the sanctions, in conformity with resolution 678, as the most effective measure to force Iraq to the respect of all the U.N. resolutions; -3- Asks the European Community and the international community, with all the technological means available, to launch an information offensive aimed at Iraq on the crimes of peace and of war committed, under way and planned by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, first of all against his own population and the Iraqi ethnical minorities".
In other words: no to resorting to war, yes to entering war, yes to a return to the embargo. This is to make things clear. Having said this, where is the connection between all this and the CORA and the antiprohibitionist policy? Or is there a supreme censor of antiprohibitionist virtues applied to everyday life and to the dialectics of nations? And what sort of a threat or announcement is this supposed to be: "Without me"?
