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OBAMA IS A WAR CRIMINAL!
International law=unicorn law. Sounds plausible in theory, but doesn't really exist.
Kress says the normal way of handling a man who is sought globally for commissioning murder would be to arrest him, put him on trial and ultimately convict him. In the context of international law, military force can be used in the arrest of a suspect, and this may entail gun fire or situations of self-defense that, in the end, leave no other possibility than to kill a highly dangerous and highly suspicious person. These developments can also lead to tragic and inevitable escalations of the justice process.
Turns out Osama was unarmed. What do you think now?
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-unarmed-killed-white-house/story?id=13520152
"We were prepared to capture him if that was possible," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. But even though bin Laden was not carrying a weapon, Carney said he had "resisted" and several people in the compound were armed and firing at the American special operators.
"Resistance does not require a firearm," Carney said.
International law=unicorn law. Sounds plausible in theory, but doesn't really exist.
Kind of like the Rule against Perpetuity?
Yes. It was. I wrote an extensive research paper on the legality of targeted killings despite the international and domestic prohibitions on "assassination".
There is no disagreement that a pre-emptive strike in the face of a legitimate threat is legal. The murky area is that most of this legislation was drafted solely with the idea of a centralized power structure most likely in the form of a sovereign nature.