"Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified."

[nickshepDEM]

Poll question: "Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified."

PC Compass Question of the Day:

"Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified."

[GrpCaptMandrake]

1. I'm first! Woo-hoo!

The idea of international law regarding warfare is something the U.S. largely self-defined at Nuremberg. To paraphrase Justice Jackson, the German leaders were punished not because they lost the war, but because they *started* it.

He who starts an unprovoked war faces the consequences. Unless, of course, he's Dear Leader, who has never in his entire stinking miserable life faced the consequences for anything he did.

[mmonk]

2. A lawless world threatens everyone.

[realisticphish]

3. we talked the talk at nuremburg and geneva

now we gotta walk the walk

[Loonman]

4. If you happen to be Adolf Hitler...

Sure!

[understandinglife]

5. Support the Bush Crimes Commission

www.bushcommission.org


Peace.

[flordehinojos]

6. is that a quote directly from the lips of countoleezzaa rise, the arbusto

guy, or sneering dick? it might even be something they all picked up from ole poppy bush!

[BJW]

7. Anybody can create hypotheticals to support any position

but in the real world, the answer is "No"

[Zynx]

8. It would take an extreme case to be justified.

Since I actually can't think of one that would be in violation of international law, I say no.

[mmonk]

9. A world without international law is only taken advantage of

and advocated for by people who oppose the principles set forth by those laws.