US-Iran War Has Begun! Iran launches dozens of ballistic missiles!

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Admiral Yi

#390
January 15, 2020, 09:01:03 PM
AFAICT there was no authorization of military force for Libya.

Is there a law that governs when an AUMF is required and when it's not?

Sheilbh

#391
January 16, 2020, 12:43:17 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 15, 2020, 11:15:59 AM
Yes, IIRC in Sweden an order has to be obviously unlawful, merely unlawful isn't enough. My guess is that the US would have something similar.
Yeah - I didn't mean the assasination, more the targeting of cultural sites etc. So for example, ifTrump said level Persepolis or target another civilian site, could/should the military refuse to follow that order.
Let's bomb Russia!

The Minsky Moment

#392
January 16, 2020, 02:05:22 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 15, 2020, 09:01:03 PM
AFAICT there was no authorization of military force for Libya.

Is there a law that governs when an AUMF is required and when it's not?

There is a law prohibiting assassinations.
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viper37

#393
January 16, 2020, 03:20:14 AM
Quote from: Maladict on January 15, 2020, 06:20:31 AM
Quote from: viper37 on January 15, 2020, 04:44:13 AM
I doubt the White House ordered the hit by saying "look, he's a bad guy, he deserves to die, trust me on this, we'll figure out something later to make it look like it's legit".

You really should know better by now. :P
well, uhm, ok, never mind.  :D
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Hamilcar

#394
January 20, 2020, 05:40:55 AM
Iran is now planning to quit the NPT. *golfclap*

Habbaku

#395
January 20, 2020, 04:15:56 PM
When does the breathless title get changed again? Did Tim wake up from his attack of the vapors?
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Admiral Yi

#396
January 20, 2020, 04:31:23 PM
He'll get to it right after he figures out a way to sex up Syt's Chinese virus thread title.

mongers

#397
March 11, 2020, 07:39:15 PM
A dozen or more rockets have hit the Iraqi Taj military base this evening, killing two Americans and possibly a Brit.

I think Trump will react.
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Habbaku

#398
March 11, 2020, 07:42:40 PM
Pretty quiet war.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Razgovory

#400
March 11, 2020, 08:33:34 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 11, 2020, 07:42:40 PM
Pretty quiet war.


Not for the two guys who just got whacked.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#401
April 22, 2020, 06:06:13 PM
Id speculate that a serious class of arms or even war between Iran and the USA will be in the interests of both leaderships.

To distract Iranians from the disastrous handling of the virus response and draw Americans attentions away from Trumps piss poor leadership over the coronavirus.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"
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