We didn't bomb Iran as "pre-emptive strike", but rather a "preventative strike".
There is a technical difference ... and the former is legal under international law, but the latter is not (look at me pretending that international law is still a thing).
If Iran HAD a nuclear weapon and was threatening to use it, or m…
We didn't bomb Iran as "pre-emptive strike", but rather a "preventative strike".
There is a technical difference ... and the former is legal under international law, but the latter is not (look at me pretending that international law is still a thing).
If Iran HAD a nuclear weapon and was threatening to use it, or making active moves to use it, then we could, legally, pre-emptively strike that weapon ... and ONLY that weapon.
However, Iran did not even have the material, let alone the weapon, so the bombing and assassinations were preventative, which is WILDLY illegal.
Yes agree - but the word 'preventative' can sound like a justification anyway, which is troubling because you could argue in the public domain that any action taken is preventative ....also yes I overstated Israel as a democracy - of course it isn't and wasn't - but it was once respected because it held elections and had an elected body rather than a King in a region of tyrants...but that doesn't mean it is a democracy for all the people granted! My bad!
A small technical point.
We didn't bomb Iran as "pre-emptive strike", but rather a "preventative strike".
There is a technical difference ... and the former is legal under international law, but the latter is not (look at me pretending that international law is still a thing).
If Iran HAD a nuclear weapon and was threatening to use it, or making active moves to use it, then we could, legally, pre-emptively strike that weapon ... and ONLY that weapon.
However, Iran did not even have the material, let alone the weapon, so the bombing and assassinations were preventative, which is WILDLY illegal.
But again ... who cares?
Yes agree - but the word 'preventative' can sound like a justification anyway, which is troubling because you could argue in the public domain that any action taken is preventative ....also yes I overstated Israel as a democracy - of course it isn't and wasn't - but it was once respected because it held elections and had an elected body rather than a King in a region of tyrants...but that doesn't mean it is a democracy for all the people granted! My bad!