The world has to quit playing games with the pretense of “legal” and “illegal” activities by sovereign nations.
I give no support to weakening national sovereignty, or its concept, for ANY “global” legal agenda.
It is pretense.
It is never more than: “We - those that decided - have decided that the activities that you are conducting - the party “we” decided against - are activities not allowed to you (or that should not be allowed to you).
That is not, and should never be construed as a matter of law.
We simply don’t trust the party we are deciding against and we believe their motivations are threatening to us.
That’s not a matter of “law”, other than the time-honored “law” of us acting in what we believe is OUR sovereign interest.
What I am seeking here as an end to pretense about “international law” and “international sanctions” on the matters of the WMD activities of North Korea.
It’s time for 17th century solutions - stop it or else. Not because of some silly notion that their activity is illegal; just because we don’t want them to do it - period.
If I remember correctly, the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war sometime in the 1920s. That, uhhh, that didn't work.
After WWII, we put a lot of Germans on trial. Now, they were bad people. If we wanted to shoot them, that's fine -- victors get to do that. But we did the whole Nuremburg thing, and gave them layers, and gathered testimony -- and then we killed them.
When Bush was president, the Left wanted the War on Terror conducted like a criminal case -- "You can't drop bombs on Osama bin Laden! He hasn't had a trial! We don't know if he's guilty!"
It is not proper that nation states worry about such things. Nation states do what they can get away with. When we see an enemy, we should weigh the costs, and if it looks like a good idea, we should just devastate them without a lot of fuss. Who cares about the legality?
Now you are singing my song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sam Donaldson:
“Mr. President... what are your plans for the cold war”
Reagan:
“We win... they lose”.
LLS