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Harold H. Koh: Striking First

Harold Koh discusses why he believes it is better to have a per se rule against preemptive action. This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on September 23, 2008. For the full video, audio, ...  
 
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jaydogalicious (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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He also is a transnationalist. He believes that international, law for which we have no control over, should preempt the constitution.

He is a radical hack who doesn't mind selling out the sovereignty of our nation.

Just another Obama cabinet appointee. Typical of the current admin.
jaydogalicious (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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He is obviously against preemptive intervention. We don't need to do anything that would hinder our ability to protect our interests as a nation, whether it be against an enemy such as North Korea, etc. or against a terrorist organisation. Never in the history of organised government, has there been a war waged that the people agreed with as a majority. War is a terrible tool but a tool just the same. We should not limit our leaders ability to protect our nation and our way of life.
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another closet commie
therudman (7 months ago) Show Hide
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Are you serious? Not only does it say in the description that he's arguing against preemptive intervention, he says it explicitly in the video multiple times regarding war AND by way of analogy.
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kyivan (7 months ago) Show Hide
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Koh is patriotic and smart as a whip. He's also an incredibly decent person. (He has always been, incidentally, one of the faculty most supportive of the conservative student Christian fellowship at Yale Law School.)

Your comment would be funny if the resentment and bile weren't so disturbing. Worthless?? Ha! He could easily be making millions in law. The country is lucky he's willing to consider public service.
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willparadigm (5 months ago) Show Hide
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No person who wants to demolish the U. S. constitution to the degree Koh does can be considered patriotic.
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Anyone who chooses "public service" over the private sector has motivations other than money. Is this good? Not if that motivation is power itself. "In a mature society 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master' - Robert A. Heinlein.
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I think he was arguing for a per se rule AGAINST preemptive intervention, without ruling out deliberation in a case by case manner
I'm not sure about his views on Iraq, but if we did it his way, at least we would have had judicial hearings on members of the Bush administration even if it was after the fact, without letting them wriggle their way out the way did

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