US: Assad responsible even if didn't order gas attack

[joshcryer]

28. Not exactly. Targeted killing is reserved by all states.

It's true that "might makes right" but Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, they could all go to the international criminal court and file charges against Obama for doing so (ie, the wedding killings). Why they don't do it is because there are usually reparations and it's handled politically so there's "implicit" consent to go dropping bombs via drones.

However, this is different as the military objective is a government, sovereign, body. A huge distinction from guys running around with AKs and RPGs and meeting up in the middle of the night to exchange explosives to make IEDs. This is a huge difference between conspirators sitting down and having coffee and discussing the next target that they're planning to hit. The target will be chemical factories which while morally objectionable, totally horrendous, are legal, because Syria did not sign the Chemical Weapons Convention. The use of those weapons are obviously against the Fourth Geneva Convention (or are terrorism, depending on whoever used them) and would be a war crime.