At 06:00 PM 7/24/03 +0100, Dave Howe wrote:

the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be "ok"

provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes?

Dude, if Julius Caesar had magnetometers we might all be speaking Italian now. The one with the bigger guns makes the rules. Which is why those with smaller guns don't play by those rules. Just because the UN fnord hasn't been given the paperwork or Congress hasn't made the required fnord legal declaration, don't think there isn't a war on. Or several.