Rule of Law in Iraq and Afghanistan?

摘要

A few concluding observations before taking questions. First, although potentially decisive, law was not the sole consideration in these examples, whether inward- or outward-looking. Instead, legal rules joined a host of tactical, operational, logistical, organizational, and other imperatives, all of which were and are significant enough to cause mission success or failure. Notably, in the first two examples, among the imperatives was initiative, without which the military units and soldiers involved would not have been even in position to succeed, and, in the examples that I cited, to save lives. In the 4th, 5th, and 6th examples, it is funding, a comprehensive approach to protecting the population and legitimating the government, and the field projection of governance, respectively, that are the dominant considerations.