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  • The Somalia Strikes and jus ad bellum

    Marty Lederman asks important questions regarding the Somalia strikes, and I too find it depressing how little attention the issue has received in the media. However, while Prof. Lederman spends most of his time on the constitutional issues, and on the jus in bello aspects of the international law issues, when he gets to jus ad bellum, the law ...
    Posted to Convictions by Craig Martin on May 5, 2008

  • Political Assassination

    At what point does one raise the question of violating executive order 11905 (banning political assassination)? I immediately admit that it would be a stretch to call Al-Qaeda supporting militants inside a nation ''politicians'' in the sense that the order requires. My question, as a law student (and one who just finished his Con Law I exam), is ...
    Posted to Convictions by substance1985 on May 5, 2008

  • The Disliking of America Didn't Start with Bush

    People around the world look to the United States and the American people in much the same way Americans look to celebrities in sports, film and television. They are looking for a beau ideal to emulate. They want us to set an example, to show the world the best a nation can be, the best a people can be. And just as Americans suffer disillusionment ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Cyrano on October 2, 2007

  • As viewed from Britain

    I have followed US Politics closely since I was in my teens. There are reasons for this, starting with My Lai, and much reinforced by my perception, at age seventeen, that Richard Nixon was crazy enough to start a nuclear war to create an insane distraction from Watergate. That scared me badly and it was years before I got over it Anyway, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by anarch on October 2, 2007