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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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How would one bomb Cambodia legally anyway?
You get the Supreme Court to give you a little piece of paper that says, "I can do what I want."
By having congress authorize it, hopefully with actual cause (dear god they don’t even need a good reason…)
So, congress’s decisions counts as globally legal?
I never specified that I was talking about international law. That said, the Rome Statute didn’t exist back then and even if it did, it could be argued that “hot persuit” doctrine allowed it as it was Vietnamese forces that were the first to violate Cambodian sovereignty. I still think the bombing was completly morally repugnant and against the interests of both justice and US war goals, but I’m not sure it would qualify as a war crime.
Mai Lai on the other hand was a war crime, full stop.