{"id":193,"date":"2006-07-07T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2006-07-07T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T13:02:12","slug":"war-is-no-place-for-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"War is no place for logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find this claim very strange, even for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/06\/AR2006070601552.html\">Krauthammer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>But no matter. Logic has little place here. The court has decreed: <em>There is no war<\/em> &#8212; or we will pretend so &#8212; and henceforth it shall be conducted by the court. God save the United States. (This honorable court can fend for itself.) [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>Here is the reason I find it strange:<\/p>\n<p>>They declared illegal President Bush&#8217;s military tribunals for the likes of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s driver and bodyguard. First, because they were not established in accordance with congressional authority. And, second, because they violated the Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a war or not?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the answer&#8211;yes and no.  Yes when Krauthammer wants it to be, no when he doesn&#8217;t.  But you can&#8217;t have it both ways.  In this case, it&#8217;s a contradiction.  <\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s a war, then the Geneva conventions apply.  If it&#8217;s a war, then people we capture are &#8220;prisoners of war&#8221; and should be treated accordingly (if unlike the crazy John Yoo we want to abide by the Geneva Conventions).  Also if it&#8217;s a war, then Congress declares it.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s not a war, then the people we capture are prisoners of another kind.<\/p>\n<p>These are not the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this claim very strange, even for Krauthammer: >But no matter. Logic has little place here. The court has decreed: There is no war &#8212; or we will pretend so &#8212; and henceforth it shall be conducted by the court. God save the United States. (This honorable court can fend for itself.) [emphasis added] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War is no place for logic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-krauthammer","category-formal-fallacies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}