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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
- Followup-To: talk.politics.space
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:07:49
- Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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- In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:20:05 GMT
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- In article <C0Js9I.87@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- Note changed followup:
-
- E.W.>
- >Of course we didn't. The United States has gone to war numerous
- >times in the past. It has never needed permission of the United
- >Nations before. It was George Bush who set that (dangerous) precendent.
-
- Careful here... I don't know exactly what legal maneuvers took place
- when the US formally joined the UN, but if the UN Charter has the status
- of a Senate-ratified treaty, that means it has the force of law in the
- US... and one of the clauses in there is a renunciation of war as an
- instrument of national policy.
-
- Of course, that just means everybody calls it a "police action" instead...
-
- You mean like Korea? ;-)
-
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