Should the US have followed the Geneva conventions

[onenote]

when fighting against enemies that engage in war crimes?


The reason i ask is that there seems to be a growing number of DUers who think that because the repubs violate Constitutional norms, we should throw out the rule of law, violate due process and ignore Constitutional provisions. That the repubs are waging war and we're following a "rule book."

[Steelrolled]

1. Terms like "Constitutional norms"

are what people come up with, when they don't like what the other side is doing, but don't know what to call it. If it isn't a violation of the Constitution, they come up with terms like violation of "Constitutional norm" that sound pretty serious, but don't mean much.

So I'm good with Democrats violating Constitutional norms. Same goes for Constitutional-classics, and Constitutional-back-in-my-day, and Constitutional-I-know-it-when-I-see-it.

[Gaugamela]

2. No, but you could accelerate the process, you could appoint a special counsel, you could use

the bully pulpit and talk about expanding the Supreme Court, you could invoke inherent contempt in congress, you could communicate that the wheels of justice are turning, you could use the bully pulpit and acknowledge the existential crisis for democracy every day, you could get imaginative and figure out obscure but legal tactics to protect the Constitution (kind of like what the Republicans do only for a good cause), you could act like what’s happening isn’t business as usual.

Besides, the US has engaged in plenty of war crimes. Your premise is purely rhetorical.