From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d9aad84ea395c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-19 09:30:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:26:29 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: non military license for ada References: <6a90b886.0303140243.7908f923@posting.google.com> <1047676770.614608@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <6a90b886.0303170020.5e230ea5@posting.google.com> <1047919117.217610@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <6a90b886.0303171644.20164b4d@posting.google.com> <6a90b886.0303180253.7349aa01@posting.google.com> <1048002583.348518@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <6a90b886.0303190151.798ff5cc@posting.google.com> <1048091365.478422@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1048094789.451210@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1048094790 22761 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35519 Date: 2003-03-19T12:26:29-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > The only problem is that there is no proof of it. I didn't say there was, only that a war against Iraq will make other supporters of anti-American attackers much more cautious. > Besides didn't most of the terrorist of 9/11 come > from Saudi-Arabia and Egypt? Yes, but Iraq makes a much better target, since the Saudis and Egyptians are nominally our allies. But the Saudis know how close they are to serious trouble. > It has as much to do with International Law > and pre-emptive War. International law is for well-fed UN diplomats to natter on about, not for serious resolutions to problems. France is right now fighting a war in the Ivory Coast. Where is the international law there, or the outrage?