[extropy-chat] Re: Iraq and legality again

[John K Clark]

"Samantha Atkins" <sjatkins at mac.com>

>  If law becomes "mythical and magical"
>  or worse then we are lost.

Like it or not it's a fact of life that if the lawmaker is weak and has no
power of enforcement then its "law" is not a law at all, it is a suggestion.
I'm not saying that is good, I'm saying that's the way things are.  I just
wish the early opponents of the war had not wasted their time droning on and
on about international law, illegality and general silliness and instead
focused on the real flaws of the war idea; there were no WMD and the Iraqi
people will hate us if we invade. If they had done that then people like me
might not have been fooled and given (halfhearted) support for the war.  I
mean, if WMD had been found and if the Iraqi people had thrown flowers at
American soldiers instead of hand grenades would you really care if some
pinhead in Brussels said it was illegal?

Samantha I must admit that before the Iraqi war started and you were 100%
against it and I was 50% for it events have proven that you were 100% right,
and I was 50% wrong. To this day I think you were right for the wrong reason
but that's not important, the important thing is that you were right. Oh
well.., at least I was right about Afghanistan.

> The biggest brute force rules

The biggest brute ALWAYS rules, that is to say he makes the rules, that is
to say he makes the laws, and I'm talking about true laws not suggestions.
Of course some brute are kinder than others, and I must say as brutes go
America must be in the top 5 percentile.

 John K Clark