Re: Noam Chomsky’s statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[David Morris]

The bottom line of the Yglesias blog is that "International Law" is
made by Big 7 Powerful countries (small & weak countries don't have a
vote on it), and that killing OBL was in accord with Their law (and
wishes).

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 5/13/2011 11:38 AM, David Morris wrote:
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>> http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/05/international-law-is-made-by-powerful-states/
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>> Noam Chomsky:  "It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law."
>
> As Charlie Harper (Sheen) would say, what's  your point.
>
> (I mean Noam's not David's)
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> P
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>> Contrast that with, say, the United Nations Security Council:
>>
>> "Recalling the “heinous” terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in New
>> York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, as well as the numerous
>> attacks perpetrated by the Al-Qaida network around the world, the
>> Security Council welcomed today the news that Osama bin Laden would
>> never again be able to perpetrate such acts of terrorism.
>>
>> Expressing its deepest condolences to the victims of terrorism and
>> their families, the Council stressed the need for the full
>> implementation of all its resolutions and statements on terrorism,
>> notably resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001), 1624 (2005), 1963 (2010)
>> and 1904 (2009), as well as other applicable international
>> counter-terrorism instruments."
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Long story short, neither Osama bin Laden nor the government of
>> Pakistan has any standing in international law to complain. Bin Laden
>> was not, in international legal terms, a “criminal” who we have to
>> attempt to apprehend. He was an ongoing threat to international peace
>> and security who the nations of the world were urged to “combat by all
>> means” and the whole point of the Security Council is that it
>> overrides national sovereignty.
>>
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