Quote: First Amongst Daves said: But the soldiers and sailors were deployed with a view to, in the case of Beirut, military intervention, and in the case of the Cole, keeping the Persian Gulf an American pond.
Shouldn't the leaders of the countries we were "intervening" in then at least had the decency to declare war on us before we were attacked?
First, no one has declared war on anyone since WW2, and international law now recognises that no formal declaration is necessary as a precondition to a state of war.
Second, are partisan guerrillas (freedom fighters or terrorists) necessarily aligned with a state? Al Qaeda certainly doesn't appear to be.
