Iran Situation

[Dill]

(01-09-2020, 11:40 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: Trump has stated multiple reasons for killing Soleimani.

1. An American contractor was killed on December 27th from a rocket attack.

2. Solemani was responsible for many other deaths.

3. Solemani was planning to blow up the US embassy or aka "Imminent threat"

Just a quick question, Matt.

The US demands everyone else follow international law. But should there there be an exception for the US? 

I see two possibilities here--1) fudge: keep holding others to international law, and follow it ourselves most of the time, but except the US  from it when it gets in our way,

or 2) just ignore it altogether. Fine if others violate international laws and norms if it does not harm us directly (go for it, India and Pakistan; Ukraine and Russia!), and we do pretty much what we want when we want, without having to "apologize" to anyone. 

"Globalists" might argue that option 2 just turns the world into an anarchy of gang style "turf" to be defended tit for tat, exactly the way gangs deal with other gangs, with force rather than law determining the outcome of conflicts.

But an Anti-Globalist might respond that we are more powerful than anyone so why should we care whether force determines such outcomes? if you are leading a gang in South LA you would be stupid to obey the law when the other gangs aren't. They get to beat, cut and shoot your guys and you can't fight back?  Hell no! When they take out one of your guys you hit back twice as hard. International law should be like that.

I didn't see any question of law factored into your assessment of Trump's actions above, and he'd already killed 25 or so guys before he killed the "gang leader" on sovereign foreign territory, so I was wondering.