David Bosco on Targeted Killings

Two pieces by my friend David Bosco on the implications of targeted killings over at his Foreign Policy blog "The Multilateralist." (David wrote an excellent book on the history of the UN Security Council, Five to Rule Them All, so has a longstanding interest in these issues).

Normally, I am skeptical about attempts to restrain the struggle against al Qa'ida through litigation or the articulation of international norms that states will just ignore at their convenience. But David raises some interesting points about how the United States will respond if a foreign power someday decides to target somebody they have designated as a terrorist on U.S. soil.