I think Heywood's reading of the Iraq war is essentially accurate. We maintained a no-fly zone over Iraq (which in international law is an act of aggression) in the years after 1991. Shooting hostilities occasionally arose in that intervening decade.
Whether this is a 100 Years' War is open to question. But relations between Iraq and America never normalized between the two wars, and acts of war intermittently passed between the two countries.
None of that should be construed to justify our 2003 invasion.
Whether this is a 100 Years' War is open to question. But relations between Iraq and America never normalized between the two wars, and acts of war intermittently passed between the two countries.
None of that should be construed to justify our 2003 invasion.
