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An Attack On One

James Joyner · Sunday, March 21, 2004 · 5 Comments

Joe Lieberman was on Fox News Sunday this morning and made an interesting suggestion: Just as NATO invoked Article V–an attack on one is an attack on all–for the first time after the 9/11 attacks, we should make the same gesture with respect to the al Qaeda attacks in Spain last week. That makes sense to me: It seizes the initiative and makes a bold statement.

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John A. Kalb says:

Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 17:17

Sounds like a great idea.

I just don’t know if Zapatero would go for it.

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Delta Dave says:

Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 19:25

Yeah, I agree with the first comment…I think Spain surrendered before there was an opportunity to involke Article V of the NATO mutual defense treaty.

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Mithras says:

Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 21:46

Good idea, Joe. NATO should invade Morocco.

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drieux just drieux says:

Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 22:13

for the record, do any of the americans remember what the american government did with the European Consideration to invoke Article V of the NATO charter with regards to the attack on the USA??? Or would that way lead to the problem of the effort to use that same article to help ‘leverage’ the Turkish position as a part of the prelude to ‘liberate’ Iraq???

Not that I would wish to complicate the current effort to paint spain as ‘lost’ – especially not with Spanish Troops Still In Iraq, a point that seems to complicate some of the NeoCon folks who are still clueless about the real situation.

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The Southern California Law Blog says:

Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 12:52

Six Pix from SoCal
Six Sites that drew my attention today:Left Coast Conservative posts a picture that drives the Left crazy. Wizbang posts about Kerry’s camp’s flip flop over a six-day period regarding Kerry’s attendance at a meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War…

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