One think that could be stressed: law of war, and international law in general, was not introduced in a drunken fit but for a reason.
One reason is that a state, even a relatively small state like Iran, can put infinitely more resources in training and equipping assassins than a terrorist organization. We have no way to stop skillful assassins from wrecking havoc here, either by killing law professors, or nuclear physicists, or high government officials. Hey, after contributing some 100 grands (el-cheapo method, impersonate a Pionier who made such a contribution), an assassin can get personal meeting with the President himself and shoot him (or her) with a poisoned microdart.
So if we unleash assassins into several "hostile" countries, and suspicious murders will start cropping out, will we know whom to blame?
Blue Texan--Apropos the idea of alerting Kurtz to how deranged Instarube is, I would love for you to share you letter with us. I would like to take the substance of the letter and send it to every reporter who quotes Instarube and let them know they have somehow been duped into relying on a terrible source.
Beclowned is a totally wonderful word and I plan to use it as much as possible from now on. Although, I think in this article Glenn bedumbassed himself. If I were going to use an unsourced memo by an unnamed person to support my crappy argument I would make sure it at least addressed the same issue, rather than say, strategic bombing in world war II and how it definitely isn't assassination.
one small point...instaputz didn't say paul campos is an ignorant clown...he said paul campos "beclowned" himself.
yes, he invented a whole new word.
Don't worry Tom -- you read my mind. I'll have a letter ready for CNN, so everyone here can let them know who it is they're actually booking.
So when do we start driving emails to Howie Kurtz asking why he keeps inviting the "Ward Churchill of the Right" back on to CNN to reliably parrot right-wing talking points?
You know what I LOVE the most about those WW2 analogies? How they always never fail to raise the fact that America completely won WW2 in less time than it took Shrub to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Maybe it's because America wasn't fighting a proxy war for Saudi Arabia back then?
Mr. Reynolds has never been one to care for the law
or all that international stuff during or not during war. Like Mr. Goldstein there is no there there.
As men of their ilk they are teh authority.
Hahahaha. Looks like he won't be selling off the Instapundit brand name for a million bucks anytime soon! Keep up the good work!
It's the Rocky Mountain News, not the Rocky Mountain Times, just FYI.
'Tis. Fixed. Thanks.
regret only comes with the self-realization that you've been a complete idiot. sooo....he wont regret it.
you should have linked to Campos, not to instapundit, thereby driving traffic to his ranting.
It's the Rocky Mountain News, not the Rocky Mountain Times, just FYI.
Reynolds, pursuing the logic of his argument says that World War II Project Manhattan, given their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program, were "liable to legitimate attack." That's pretty outstanding. If some German spy snuck into the United States and murdered Oppenheimer, according to Reynolds, that would have been "legitimate"!!
The classic fallback- pocket Nazi reference.
You know they actually did carry out campaigns against civilian Jews in authority positions... assassinated in character, assassinated their rights, some jailed indeterminately.
Sudetenland: love it of leave it!
Heh.
Oh, bombing railroad tracks to the death camps was targeting innocent Juden as well...
An atomic scientist in Iran was killed recently as well...
did Roverer ask you to get ahead of this action?
Funny. The German rocket scientists we didn't kill we later employed.
At least we were actually at war with the Germans when such matters were being considered. Hillbilly Lawyer surely regards such matters as trivial, but if we took such an approach when we merely regarded Germany as a threat, we probably would have preemptively assassinated everyone from Fritz Lang to half the future rocket design team at NASA.
I really like the Glenn Reynolds = Death Squads meme. Can use it whenever we refer to him?
You have to be batshit insane, terminally stupid or both to be a rat winger.
Does Putz' desire to avert war by assasinating radical clerics and academics mean that he'll be killing himself anytime soon?
if Putz were capable of regret, i think there would have been evidence of it by now, and i am not aware of any.
anyone?
(...crickets...)
Lee,
By "academics in the US," would that include law professors who have radical blogs ... that advocate assasinating radical clerics and academics? But only in a poetic justice, compassionate conservative kinda way?
Regret is one of many human emotions. The hehbot feels not these things.
During the build up to Gulf War2, what would have been Putz's response had Saddam suggested that Iraqi teams go kill clerics and academics in the US that were aiding the support for the new war?
I mean it would have been a MUCH less warlike approach than what did happen, right?
You are on a roll daddy... thanks!
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