Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Dumb and dangerous
A legalistic argument within Britain's political class has the potential to rip out the basic concepts of government.
The brand-new concept that war must be justified on legal grounds is intentionally dangerous.
It's infecting America as well. Tune into any leftist commentator, and within 5 seconds you'll hear that Bush and Cheney are "war criminals" and should be arrested by some "international tribunal".
Wars have never been legal. Wars have never been moral. Any attempt to apply legal or moral criteria to wars is an attempt to wreck civilization.
The only moral criterion for war is simple. If Tribe A attacks Tribe B in a serious way, Tribe B must totally and utterly defeat Tribe A. Remove A from the face of the earth, if at all possible. The details don't matter. Torturing prisoners, slaughtering civilians, whatever it takes to reach absolute victory.
If all the Tribe B's followed this precept, the surviving Tribe A's of the world would learn a thing or two. Those who failed to learn would cease to exist.
These questions about "international law" are completely improper, and their sole purpose is to serve the long-standing Leninist impulse to ruin the world.
The proper question about the behavior of Blair, Bush, Cheney and Obama is practical and factual. Did Iraq and Afghanistan attack us? Or did Iraq and Afghanistan have imminent plans to attack us?
The answer is No. Who did attack us? Saudi Arabia, not Iraq and Afghanistan. How should we punish Blair, Cheney, Bush and Obama for making and continuing this false decision? I don't know, but I know this court procedure is simply national sabotage. ¶ 5:36 AM
Tony Blair was placed under further pressure ahead of his second appearance before the Iraq Inquiry after his most senior legal adviser said last night that the former prime minister's public statements about the invasion contradicted the legal advice he had been given.
The brand-new concept that war must be justified on legal grounds is intentionally dangerous.
It's infecting America as well. Tune into any leftist commentator, and within 5 seconds you'll hear that Bush and Cheney are "war criminals" and should be arrested by some "international tribunal".
Wars have never been legal. Wars have never been moral. Any attempt to apply legal or moral criteria to wars is an attempt to wreck civilization.
The only moral criterion for war is simple. If Tribe A attacks Tribe B in a serious way, Tribe B must totally and utterly defeat Tribe A. Remove A from the face of the earth, if at all possible. The details don't matter. Torturing prisoners, slaughtering civilians, whatever it takes to reach absolute victory.
If all the Tribe B's followed this precept, the surviving Tribe A's of the world would learn a thing or two. Those who failed to learn would cease to exist.
These questions about "international law" are completely improper, and their sole purpose is to serve the long-standing Leninist impulse to ruin the world.
The proper question about the behavior of Blair, Bush, Cheney and Obama is practical and factual. Did Iraq and Afghanistan attack us? Or did Iraq and Afghanistan have imminent plans to attack us?
The answer is No. Who did attack us? Saudi Arabia, not Iraq and Afghanistan. How should we punish Blair, Cheney, Bush and Obama for making and continuing this false decision? I don't know, but I know this court procedure is simply national sabotage. ¶ 5:36 AM
