Clarification of the week
Here’s my favorite tidbit from today’s New York Times (which, for some reason, does not appear online):
An article last Sunday about potential harm to civilian infrastructure in an attack on computer networks described the military principle of proportionality, in layman’s terms, as a rule arguing that if you slap me, I cannot blow up your house. In international law, however, the principle includes the concept that if you slap me, I cannot blow up your house unless the advantage from doing so justifies not using a lesser response.
Glad we straightened that out!
