More directly: Have you heard of law, and do you believe in it? If somebody is manufacturing illegal weapons, that somebody ought to be arrested and tried in a court of law. If found guilty, they should be sentenced to the appropriate prison term.
None of the above even reaches the other issue, which is the obvious fact that the United States is the world's leading WMD peddler and illegal user.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dawson -PSU" <mdawson at pdx.edu>
>
> > The Weiger Doctrine: Nations get to drop bombs on buildings they
suspect
> > might be housing activities they don't like.
>
> Yes, if country X has good reason (and I don't know if the US did) to
> believe that terrorists are manufacturing deadly weapons in some building
in
> country Y, it will sometimes be appropriate for them to bomb it to
> smithereens (even if after the fact we learn that what country X had good
> reason to believe was actually false). Do you disagree?
>
> -- Luke
>
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