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What evidence there is? When they were declared guilty by a court? When they were charged with a.crime.in first place?

• rayiner 13y ago
  Crimes are domestic constructs for internal policing. Waging war on the US from tribal lands in Yemen is not a crime, its in the nature of a military action. Killing in military actions does not require a judicial determination of guilt. Did we get a court to tell us the 50,000 Japanese we incinerated at Hiroshima were guilty?
  • drewblaisdell 13y ago
    We declared war on Japan. We have not declared war on Yemen or Pakistan.
    • rayiner 13y ago
      So?
      • drewblaisdell 13y ago
        > Killing in military actions does not require a judicial determination of guilt. To which I respond: > We have not declared war on Yemen or Pakistan. Which means that our military actions in Yemen or Pakistan are illegal. This is still ignoring other obvious questionable points about drone strikes, such as issues regarding proportionality.
        • rayiner 13y ago
          Illegal how? The strikes are within authority authorized by the AUMF. No "formal declaration of war" (whatever that is, it's not a term that is defined anywhere) is necessary.
          • rooshdi 13y ago
            What isn't authorized?
  • jacquesm 13y ago
    War crimes are a subset of crimes, not all crimes are domestic and internal (see: Interpol). No one in Yemen is waging war on the US, that's a construct of the creative imaginations of a bunch of people that stand to profit from having a bogeyman so they can sell their toys. The people in the tribal lands of Yemen can't wage war on the US since: (1) they don't have air strike capabilities able to reach the continental US (2) they don't have a shared border where a land war could be waged (3) they don't stand a chance of getting a boat in US coastal waters Yemeni people or people residing there are not waging war on the USA.