I'm well sick of these "Our permanent warfare should be waged in a more civil-libertarian way!" op-eds.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/707254671161819137 …
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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?
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.
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 …
@ChMadar I think it's a similar argument to 'bring back the draft to put a stop to perpetual warfare'.
@TheRealJohnSeal I think it's different, in large part b/c I think mandatory military service (not a mere draft) would indeed stop perma-war
@ChMadar You could be right, but I fear more fodder for the war machine could just as easily equal more perma-war.
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