01-15-2020, 07:34 PM
(01-15-2020, 06:48 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Why do we insist on making things up? I provided the legal definition of Act or War and nowhere does it mention the things you and Fred are adding.
Was it illegal? Quite possibly.
Was it an Act of War? No
Hmm. So your definition doesn't mention Cambodia? Then I guess it could not apply to the bombing of Cambodia, nor could that bombing teach us anything about how legal definitions actually work.
As Fred makes clear, your definition sucks. And you have to see how a definition works in practice to understand it--hence all the "making things up" you refer to.
Why not refer to 1) the US legal code, and 2) the actual practice of defining wars.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
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