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

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 24 16:55:37 PST 2001


Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:


> || I don't get your point. So we live in a lawless
> world, there's no point
> || talking about law? We also live in a world
> without justice. Is there no
> || point in talking about justice? In the name of
> what do you
> || decty lawlessness
> || and injustice, then?
> ||
> || jks
> ||
>
> International law is now a _negative_ concept -
> something that should be,
> that once was, but no longer exists. We can no
> longer speak of breaches of
> sovereignty, of crimes against humanity, etc., _as
> legal concepts_ after S11
> because the legal framework has been subverted.

This is what I had in mind. I don't have a copy of it at hand, but I think it's page 34 in _Empire_ that gets at this. Starting with the first paragraph, it's a prescient passage on terrorism, international law, and police action.

Alec

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