Leashing the dogs of war

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_73/ai_109220701/print?tag=artBody;col1 ^ | David B. Rivkin, Jr.

[ventanax5]

WAR HAS always had rules, even if only to protect the dead. In The Iliad, for example, Homer tells us that Achilles' desecration of Hector's corpse angered the gods. Medieval churchmen sought to limit warfare to certain days of the week and evolved an entire just war theology to constrain the use of armed force. By the Age of Reason, international law "publicists" were busily expounding on the subject, and the 20th century opened with a substantial body of law governing both the right to initiate combat (jus ad bellum) and how armed force is applied (jus in bello). These "laws of war" were based both on custom and treaties and were accepted by all of the Great Powers--including the United States. In more recent years, however, fissures have opened between America and Europe over what the laws of war require with respect to when it is permissible to launch an armed attack, how warfare must be waged, and how the relevant legal norms should be enforced. Today, these disagreements are so fundamental that America and its partners in Europe can be said to operate under different legal codes.

[rednek]

There is only one rule in any fight.........WIN. Anything else is irrelevant.......red

[btcusn]

There is only one rule in any fight.........WIN. Anything else is irrelevant.
Yep 100% right!!
Jack

[Condor51]

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu

[ventanax5]

“Proportion must be defined by reference to the threat proposed by an enemy and not by the harm it has produced.”

[super7man]

Well said. Is that yours?
May I steal it?

[slowhandluke]

There is only one rule in any fight.........WIN. Anything else is irrelevant.......red

But be very careful in your definition of WIN. Pyhrric victories are to be avoided.

Becoming what you fought against is not considered a win by some philosophies.

[TonyStark]

If it comes into or out of a mosque, kill it.

How's that for disambiguation?

[Vermont Lt]

We are just about at the point where only the elderly recall the horrors of World War II in Europe. It is merely a concept to a majority of the living.

Therefore, we are probably only a decade or so from it happening again.

We are a nasty species. Sometimes we are pretty dumb too.

[JasonC]

People don't operate under legal codes. They operate under the laws of physics. These people are simply idiots with no idea what war even is.

[denydenydeny]

One of the most bitterly funny images of the twentieth century was the scene of the politicians and diplomats congratulating themselves after producing the Kellogg-Briand pact in 1928, which officially banned all wars.