tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post2815046305115201107..comments2024-03-06T10:16:40.696+00:00Comments on PhD studies in human rights: Attacking Syria? This is the crime of aggression William A. Schabashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17552332133145290879noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-13986432542474522882013-09-12T00:33:25.938+01:002013-09-12T00:33:25.938+01:00Thank you for this post, Professor. I think the co...Thank you for this post, Professor. I think the contribution on the french parliamentary channel of Dominique de Villepin (ex-prime minister -France) is a good addition to your post. The solution States should be looking for should be based on the interest of Syrians, rather than on a punishment of their government.<br /><br />http://blogs.lcp.fr/Ne-cedons-pas-aux-illusions-du.html<br /><br />Helene JosephidesLnJoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493171708012015342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-35918918997809559422013-09-05T18:51:48.594+01:002013-09-05T18:51:48.594+01:00it is already international. you obviously havent ...it is already international. you obviously havent been paying attention. the assad regime is heavily armed and funded by russia and iran. iranian soldiers and iraqi and lebanese sectarian militia are helping assad with his genocide. Marko is quite right. the poison gas is just the latest method of assad's genocide. somebody should act, just as somebody should have bombed the train lines to auschwitz, for moral reasons, and for practical reasons - this enormous ethnic cleansing, traumatisation and displacement has already brought civil war back to lebanon and iraq. this will continue to spread. law is not just a set of pedantic sentences. it's supposed to be based on morality. and i don't like the tone of the original article here. the author seems to think the issue is america, the west, or 'law' in the abstract. the issue is the genocide of the syrian people.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12590358179530634579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-84012185724036614942013-09-02T21:47:38.159+01:002013-09-02T21:47:38.159+01:00For a contrary view to Professor Schabas', see...For a contrary view to Professor Schabas', see "Syria Insta-Symposium: Jennifer Trahan-The Legality of a U.S. Strike on Syria" at http://opiniojuris.org/2013/08/31/syria-insta-symposium-jennifer-trahan-legality-u-s-strike-syria/Jennifer Trahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12414567410215141508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-9174827421691007072013-08-31T09:53:44.926+01:002013-08-31T09:53:44.926+01:00Thanks for blog Human Rights Canada.A guide to Can...Thanks for blog <a href="http://GeorgeBrown.biz/" rel="nofollow">Human Rights Canada</a>.A guide to Canadian human rights. <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06083309113016720029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-17816050893797746262013-08-31T09:16:10.475+01:002013-08-31T09:16:10.475+01:00The fact that Obama keeps claiming that strikes ar...The fact that Obama keeps claiming that strikes are going to be 'limited' shows they are taking into account the amendment. However, even in the absence of the 'scale' requisite, those strikes will meet the character and gravity requirements. <br /><br />Great post, Prof! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05913792209986713182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-3587176176841041702013-08-31T03:10:52.995+01:002013-08-31T03:10:52.995+01:00The US is going to make a non-international armed ...The US is going to make a non-international armed conflict into an international armed conflict. Striking Syria violates international criminal law as well as the US Constitution, which is the law of the land in the US. Please visit my blog for my views on US and Syria. Harry M Rheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01635319038883915559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-16980340848692150012013-08-30T14:56:39.432+01:002013-08-30T14:56:39.432+01:00The inherently indiscriminate nature of poison gas...The inherently indiscriminate nature of poison gas distinguishes it from other weapons that can, but need not, also be used to commit atrocities; preserving a taboo against the use of poison has some value.<br /><br />Why does the observation that the Syrian government has done much worse to its population over the past two years, in terms of numbers of civilians killed and wounded, than it did by use of gas, count as an argument against intervention? It seems to count as an argument in favour, to be used to criticise previous failure to intervene by the U.S., UK, France and others (or for that matter, failure of the SC to act) - an argument that could be countered by appeal to international law but still itself weighing for action.Marko Prelechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01017821989419687094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-60618177048962614912013-08-30T13:57:09.204+01:002013-08-30T13:57:09.204+01:00Great post Bill,
I have linked it (as a comment) t...Great post Bill,<br />I have linked it (as a comment) to the compilation of US debate regarding legality of intervention in Syria published by EJIL Talk here:<br />http://www.ejiltalk.org/us-debates-regarding-the-legality-of-intervention-in-syria/comment-page-1/#comment-132239<br /><br />Dr. Elvira Dominguez-RedondoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06891800844992850424noreply@blogger.com