[throwaway8689]

Can you address the 'unprovoked' part? Reading comprehension here involves reading a whole paragraph.

[adolph]

There is no need to address “unprovoked”. If it were provoked, would it make the invasion unwrong?

Edit: s/we’re/it were/

[cedilla]

There is no such thing as "getting provoked to wage war". "Feeling provoked" is no excuse established in international law.

[adolph]

To what comment is this comment directed? That quote does not appear to be from this thread.

I think it is fair to say that there are typically reasons for war to occur (even if the chain of causality isn’t reflective in the claims of the belligerents). An example might be the US into Afghanistan after the Taliban did not extradite the leadership of Al Qaeda. Was the attack of 9/11/01 not “getting provoked to wage war?”