{"id":32201,"date":"2020-01-11T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/?p=32201"},"modified":"2020-01-11T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:56:45","slug":"killing-suleimani-ethically-legally-unjustified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/killing-suleimani-ethically-legally-unjustified\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Suleimani ethically, legally unjustified"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 3, the United States assassinated Qassem Suleimani, a top Iranian military commander, while he was leaving Baghdad International Airport in a car with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi leader of Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia. All the occupants of the car were killed.<\/p>\n

The next day, at a special press briefing, an unnamed senior US State Department official said that Suleimani had been, for 20 years, \u201cthe major architect\u201d of Iran\u2019s terrorist attacks and had \u201ckilled 608 Americans in Iraq alone.\u201d He added that Suleimani and Muhandis had been designated as terrorists by the United Nations, and that \u201cboth of these guys are the real deal in terms of bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2003, US intelligence about Iraq\u2019s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was completely wrong. Those errors led to the invasion of Iraq, which cleared the way for the involvement of Iran and Suleimani in the country. But let us assume that this time the facts are as the US administration says they are. Was the double assassination ethically defensible?<\/p>\n

We can begin with the presumption that it is wrong to take human life. President Donald Trump will not deny that. A year ago, for example, he said: \u201cI will always defend the first right in our Declaration of Independence, the right to life.\u201d Trump was addressing his remarks to anti-abortion campaigners, but a right to life that applies to fetuses must also apply to older humans.<\/p>\n

Is there an exception for \u201cbad guys,\u201d though? Again, to keep the argument as straightforward as possible, let\u2019s assume that the right to life protects only innocent humans. Who is to judge innocence? If we favor, as Americans often say they do, \u201ca government of laws, not of men\u201d there must be a legal process for deciding guilt. Since 2002, the International Criminal Court has sought to apply that process globally. The ICC has had some notable successes in prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the court\u2019s scope is limited, and its reach has not been helped by the refusal of the US to join the 122 other countries that have accepted its jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Suleimani\u2019s assassination, Agn\u00e8s Callamard, a Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that there is no oversight of targeted killings carried out beyond a country\u2019s borders. The Executive simply decides, without any legal due process or approval by any other branch of government, who is to be killed. Accepting such an action makes it difficult to find any principled objection to similar killings planned or carried out by other countries. That includes the 2011 \u2018Cafe Milano Plot\u2019, supposedly masterminded by Suleimani himself, in which Iranian agents planned to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US while he lunched at a well-known restaurant in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The only thing the US can say in defense of its assassinations is that it targets really bad guys, and the Saudi ambassador was not such a bad guy. That puts the rule of men above the rule of law.<\/p>\n

The other justification that the Pentagon offered for the killing referred vaguely to \u201cdeterring future Iranian attack plans.\u201d As Callamard pointed out, this is not the same as the \u201cimminent\u201d attack required to justify acting in self-defense under international law. She also noted that others were killed in the attack \u2014 reportedly, a total of seven people died \u2014 and suggested that these other deaths were clearly illegal killings.<\/p>\n

A careful reading of the transcript of the January 3 press briefing, held by three unidentified senior State Department officials, reveals the Trump administration\u2019s real thinking. In response to repeated questions about the justification of the assassination, one official compared it to the 1943 downing of a plane carrying Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was visiting Japanese troops in the Pacific \u2013 an incident that occurred in the midst of war, more than a year after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Another official said: \u201cWhen I hear these questions it\u2019s like you\u2019re describing Belgium for the last 40 years. It\u2019s the Iranian regime. We\u2019ve got 40 years of acts of war that this regime has committed against countries in five continents.\u201d At one point, the official who had compared the assassination to the killing of Yamamoto burst out: \u201cJesus, do we have to explain why we do these things?\u201d<\/p>\n

If senior State Department officials believe that the US is engaged in a just war with Iran, as it was with Japan in 1943, the killing of Suleimani makes sense. According to standard just war theory, you may kill your enemies whenever you have the chance to do so, as long as the importance of the target outweighs the so-called collateral damage of harm to innocents.<\/p>\n

But the US is not at war with Iran. The US Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to declare war, and it has never declared war on Iran. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggested that congressional leaders should have been consulted on the plan to kill Suleimani. If it was an act of war, she is right.<\/p>\n

If, on the other hand, the killing was not an act of war, then, as an extrajudicial assassination that was not necessary to prevent an imminent attack, it was both illegal and unethical. It risks severe negative consequences, not only in terms of escalating tit-for-tat retaliation in the Middle East, but also by contributing to a further decline in the international rule of law.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Peter Singer<\/span><\/strong>
\nProfessor of Bioethics at Princeton University and founder of the charity The Life You Can Save. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, One World Now, <\/em>and The Life You Can Save.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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