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Spiegel:Justice, American Style Was Bin Laden's Killing Legal?
US President Barack Obama gets precious few opportunities to announce a victory. So it's no wonder he chose grand words on Sunday night as the TV crews' spotlights shone upon him and he informed the nation about the deadly strike against Osama bin Laden. "Justice has been done," he said.It may be that this sentence comes back to haunt him in the years to come. International law experts, who have been grappling with the question of the legal status of the US-led war on terror for years, find Obama's pithy words on Sunday night more problematic. Claus Kress, an international law professor at the University of Cologne, argues that achieving retributive justice for crimes, difficult as that may be, is "not achieved through summary executions, but through a punishment that is meted out at the end of a trial." Bambi has lost the EUropeans. I thought he was going to make us loved respected by our betters again. Now he's nothing more than another gunslinger. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-05-04 |
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