Crime not War (Re: Arguments for ground war - forget it)

[Alec Ramsdell]

--- Justin Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > > actions.
> >
> >Doesn't the collapsing distinction--on the level of
> >empire--and collapsed distinction--in the case of
> the
> >war against terrorism, homeland security, etc.--
> >between police and military action render a due
> >process model ineffective for current questions of
> >"justice"?  The whole debate between war and due
> >process seems beside the point, or rather not
> nearly
> >flexible enough.
> >
> 
> So you got something better?

If only.   But due process presumes a stable,
overarching, in this case supranational (in terms of
empire--the UN) juridical set of interpretations and
practices/interventions.  Since this war, by these
standards, is illegal, or legal in a way that clearly
massages any kind of rigor of interpretation since the
US has bypassed the UN, where's the credibility in due
process?  This is in no way an endorsement of war, nor
is this the first "war" to argue for the difference:
it's just the coordinates have changed.  Due process
is a souvenir in this conflict.

Alec

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