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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (7696)9/11/2001 7:25:43 PM
From: que seria  Read Replies (2) of 23153
 
Ed: I have to disagree about international "law." For what that holds, look to the United Nations and its parade of posturing, dithering, hypocritical and impotent emissaries. It is crucial, as you note, that identification precede retaliation, because our nation must strike only at the responsible parties.

Once having done so, the relevant law is the law of survival. Predators laugh at law. We need reasonable assurance of culpability followed by relentless retaliation. We should be concerned with international law only to the extent of asserting that we have followed it.

Its purveyors are typically less qualified to judge morality than we are, have no stake here as we do, and will mostly have goals opposite what ours should be (i.e., "better that a hundred terrorists go free than that one should be executed by a cruise missile because we cannot grab him to try him").
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