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The high seas? Do you mean international waters, such as those off the coast of Somalia? I'm just trying to make a point about warlike actions without formal d
by scott_karana 13y ago
The high seas? Do you mean international waters, such as those off the coast of Somalia?
I'm just trying to make a point about warlike actions without formal declarations, in any case.
- mpyne 13y agoThe U.S. made a formal declaration (the 2001 AUMF). But I don't even have qualms comparing international waters to Afghanistan, because you have to consider that if a given piece of land is completely ungoverned, does it belong to a specific nation at all? If you say that the lands in Afghanistan from which AQ organized their terrorism was effectively governed by the Taliban and not a failed state, then it's even easier legally, as you have an actual causus belli for military action in response.