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To: Elroy who wrote (220183)	2/22/2005 12:32:22 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573819

"What is "international law"?" Excellent question. You are correct that there isn't a codified body of laws with an authority that has power of enforcement. What we do have is a generally agreed upon set of rules of behaviour that everyone in the first world pretty much goes along with. A large percentage of them are embodied in the Geneva Convention, but it goes beyond that. Ok, there are others, like the Law of the Sea conferences that try to codify the way that countries interact on various issues. But for the topic under discussion, they are extraneous... Ok, what is the penalty if a country violates these "laws"? Probably the worst for those that crave moral authority, rejection by the first world community. For a Hitler(to take a 20th Century analog) this is not a problem, for a Ghandi(to extend the model), it is. History tends to back the Ghandi approach, but the Hitler approach could win out...