Arguments for ground war - forget it

[Brad DeLong]

>mbs:  those are Brad's words, but that aside, you are glossing
>over the difference between law enforcement and national defense,
>between crime-fighting and war.  I think stipulating norms of due process
>etc. in a military situation defies practicality and is unreasonable on
>that account.  I've said before that granting discretion to the big bad
>State is clearly risky, but I see no alternative.

Yes, but the bourgeois procedural liberal inside of me sez: "If you 
want to shift from 'reasonable doubt-due process' mode to 'kill the 
fucks now' mode, first Congress has to send this particular piece of 
paper to the President called 'Declaration of War' and the President 
has to sign it. We have no business entering into what is essentially 
martial law without a duly passed Declaration of War."

Of course, then I take the bourgeois procedural liberal inside of me 
and club it senseless as if it were a baby harp seal...

Brad DeLong