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Sam Tanenhaus had an essay over the weekend in the NYT that I think is at bottom a “little c” conservative critique of President Obama’s Syria push. But the essay makes little sense, at least to me.
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Senators Manchin and Heitcamp are working on an alternative Syria Resolution that tentatively provides:
The failure by the government of Bashar al-Assad to sign and comply with the [Chemical Weapons] Con...
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The rhetoric of “punishment” has been a ubiquitous justification for intervening in Syria.
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Last Saturday President Obama said he had “decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” and that he had made that decision “as Commander-in-Chief based on wh...
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John Dehn, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Senior Fellow in West Point's Center for the Rule of Law, writes in with this comment about Syria and humanitarian intervention:
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Lawfare-ers have been quite prolific in the debate over U.S. intervention in Syria.
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Earlier today I said that President Obama’s dismissal of a Security Council authorization as a prerequisite for intervention in Syria “marks the death knell for the long-held USG view that humanitarian i...
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Lurking behind international law arguments over a possible US armed intervention in Syria without Security Council authorization are fundamental divides over the nature of international law itself. Thes...
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Marty Lederman writes in with a response to my last post:
A quick, response to Jack's reading of the President's remarks in Stockholm yesterday:
One should be very cautious, of course, about reading too...
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I want to briefly unpack this extraordinary statement by President Obama yesterday in Sweden:
[T]he truth of the matter is that under international law, Security Council resolution for self-defense or de...
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President Obama has recently made the case for taking action in Syria in two very different arenas: yesterday, in a statement made prior to his meeting with Members of Congress; and today, in Stockholm, ...
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So reports the New York Times on this afternoon's vote to authorize the use of military force in Syria. The vote was 10-7; the Republicans voting with a majority of the Democrats on the panel included: S...