how about the war on poverty?

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:44 PM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote:
>  The justification of these attacks is self-defense and the laws of war that 
> the targets are supposedly combatants. Nations per se are not involved. This 
> is the war on terror. I have always been bothered by the fact that the legal 
> discussion of drones assumes that because the war on terror is called a war 
> the laws of war apply. It would be interesting if the same reasoning were 
> used to target drug dealers, or murderers as part of the war on drugs or war 
> on crime.<
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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