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, ...
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, and transcript, go to http://www.carnegiecouncil.org
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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.
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.
you are a silly person... Iraq was completely justified... the left persuaded you to think that this was for oil or some other nonsense...
you do not understand the bigger picture... the left is covering for their failures in the 20th century... bush did the correct thing (even though I hate him)
your false altruism is what's complicating things in this world. give it up, sweetheart.
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.
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.
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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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.
you do not understand the bigger picture... the left is covering for their failures in the 20th century... bush did the correct thing (even though I hate him)
your false altruism is what's complicating things in this world. give it up, sweetheart.
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.
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