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guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 March 2011 19.03 GMT
The military action in Libya follows the pattern of other assaults involving Britain, including in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq
Opening salvoes of high-level bombing and cruise missiles fired from submarines have been the pattern of every huge attack by US-led British forces for more than a decade.
There are eerie echoes in the attacks on Libya of Tony Blair's first war – Operation Desert Fox against Saddam Hussain's military apparatus in 1998 – as well as subsequent US and British attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq.
There are echoes in particular of the 1999 Kosovo war, provoked by a humanitarian crisis played out on the world's television screens, albeit – as is often forgotten – a war not supported by any UN resolution....more...
There are eerie echoes in the attacks on Libya of Tony Blair's first war – Operation Desert Fox against Saddam Hussain's military apparatus in 1998 – as well as subsequent US and British attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq.
There are echoes in particular of the 1999 Kosovo war, provoked by a humanitarian crisis played out on the world's television screens, albeit – as is often forgotten – a war not supported by any UN resolution....more...
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