RECOMMENDED READING
A mix of blogospheric hits…as I see it.
From Bruce Kesler at Democracy Project -“ 9/11 is Democracy Day (NY Daily News)” which highlighted the op-ed “Make 9/11 a national holiday? Yes ” by Dr. Philip Napoli.
James McCormick at Chicago Boyz – “VD Hanson — A War Like No Other“. I was also the recipient of kind words from Lexington Green who is patiently waiting for me to finish my Nixon piece.
A dour assessment about Iraq by Colonel W. Patrick Lang at Sic Semper Tyrannis. Lang also has another post that indicates evidence of John Robb’s hypothesis of Iraq’s “granular” intra-sectarian disintegration.
Marc Schulman at American Future on the transnational progressive attack on the ancient right of self-defense ( and one completely bizarre in terms of reasoning as trans-progs casually invoke natural law theory when it suits their agenda to do so).
That’s it.
September 5th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Ah — that post brought back memories from my international law class.
Definitely seems very progy, but I don’t see where it invokes natural law. It appears to be in the tradition of positivist international law.
September 5th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Oops ! I was unclear -sorry !
The right of self-defense derives from natural law theory, which this UN bureaucrat is discarding in favor of positivism (as you noted).
My point, however unclear, was that the Progs have no internal philosophical consistency in terms of their legal reasoning, just their ideological objectives. On other issues, say nuclear disarmament or the precedence of their argument over national law, they readily invoke natural law. Any tool that gets them to the ” right” result at the moment is acceptable.