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| Spiegel:Justice, American Style Was Bin Laden's Killing Legal? |
| 2011-05-04 |
| US President Barack Obama gets precious few opportunities to announce a victory. So it's no wonder he chose grand words on Sunday night as the TV crews' spotlights shone upon him and he informed the nation about the deadly strike against Osama bin Laden. "Justice has been done," he said. It may be that this sentence comes back to haunt him in the years to come. International law experts, who have been grappling with the question of the legal status of the US-led war on terror for years, find Obama's pithy words on Sunday night more problematic. Claus Kress, an international law professor at the University of Cologne, argues that achieving retributive justice for crimes, difficult as that may be, is "not achieved through summary executions, but through a punishment that is meted out at the end of a trial." Bambi has lost the EUropeans. I thought he was going to make us loved respected by our betters again. Now he's nothing more than another gunslinger. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #6 "Next time you go after a terrorist, take a German law professor with you who can tell the terrorist to surrender peacefully. Win Win." Particularly if you make sure the prof's in front, EC :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-04 23:36 |
| #5 But for the sake of humanity: Next time you go after a terrorist, take a German law professor with you who can tell the terrorist to surrender peacefully. Win Win |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-04 21:35 |
| #4 There's a serious disconnect between published opinion and what the public actually thinks in Germany. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-04 21:25 |
| #3 But if bin Laden was no longer a leader, it would no longer be permissible to treat him as an enemy combatant or kill him. Well sport...right there's the monkey in yer wrench. Ya see, it's perfectly legal to extinguish "enemy combatants". And well...Binny was...yes indeed...designated as an enemy combatant. Pretty sure your tortured logic wouldn't erase that fact. Next time you might wanna try leaving out the unprovable hypotheticals in your legal arguments. But nice try anyway. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-05-04 12:41 |
| #2 There's no moral superiority like German moral superiority. |
| Posted by: charger 2011-05-04 12:12 |
| #1 We don't need no stinkin' badges!" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-05-04 09:36 |