2. And no offense to the @ACLU guys who wrote it. They're playing their position well. But the legalist "how" of warfare is a 2dary issue.
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If anyone still thinks that legal proceduralist restraints on drones, other tactics are a coy & clever way to put brakes on war, think again
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What we need instead are op-eds that repoliticize our permanent warfare. What's a stake? What is & what isn't a threat? What's moral?
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Many lawyers in their amour-propre seem to think that jus in bello is a fine proxy for these 1st-order questions. It isn't, not even close.
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If you'd like a fleshed-out version of preceding TW-rant, see my
@soasLAW talk on the Weaponization of#HumanRights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmuZtW2fW0c … -
Or read
@Peiresc's disputaiton with David Cole. Moyn is entirely in the right.https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/civil-liberties-and-endless-war …
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