The Syria War?

[jordan179]

As I write this, Obama appears about to take America into another war -- probably a small one, though it might wind up bigger than the Lightworkers expects it to be.  His stated plan is to launch limited cruise missile strikes, targeting the individual military units he judges "guilty" of launching chemiical weapons strikes.  He is explicitly not

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[jordan179]

Well yes, Assad doesn't even have the right to rule Syria, under Natural Right doctrine. Nor really does any regime outside the modern West have the right to rule any other country. From a Natural Right POV we can smash those regimes at will, and treat their officials as so many jumped-up criminals.

But I'm talking International Law here, which is more about managing international conflicts than providing a free hand to anyone who wants to start them.

Under International Law, yes, Obama could round up all the Republicans and feed us into meat-grinders. And unless he started raiding other countries to catch the Republicans who fled there, he would not be providing a just cause to anyone else to attack him for this.

OTOH, in doing so, he'd be violating both Natural Law and the US Constitution, so it would then be perfectly moral for us to no longer regard him as the legitimate President of the United States of America and raise rebellion against him. But if some other country chose to aid us rebels, they'd be doing it at their own risk, because they would be committing an unprovoked act of war against the United States of America -- from an International-Law perspective. See?