FOX NEWS - The pressure to strike Syria is really heating up for President Obama (even if there now appears to be a way out), but it might not necessarily be legal to do so. Judge Andrew Napolitano reiterated as much to Shepard Smith on Tuesday, saying this time that if Obama strikes Syria, he could very well be declared a war criminal by the European Union.
Napolitano walked through all the ways the United States could exercise authority under international law, from a retaliatory attack to preempting a "dangerously imminent" attack on American soil. Even intervening when a nation has violated an international agreement they are partner to is okay, the problem being that Syria never signed the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Napolitano warned that if Obama proceeds anyway, the consequences could be particularly dire for him.
"The president runs the risk of being declared a war criminal by a magistrate in the EU.... If they indict him as a war criminal, an indictment for which there's no statute of limitations, after he leaves the White House, he can't go to Europe for fear of having to confront this."
Yes, but the operative term in Judge Napolitano's statement is "can"; "could" would work just as well. "Would" only works if Barack Obama were a Republican; since he is most emphatically not a Republican, this entire subject is an abortive waste of time. Sure, the European Union could declare O a war criminal if he impotently lobs a few Tomahawks into Syria, but would they? Of course not; they have the perfect American president already in place, one that kowtows to them and their delusions of "smart superpower-hood," one that makes them look quasi-sane by comparison, and one that is still worshipped on the streets of their own countries. Besides, why would they want to take the risk of indicting him on war crimes charges and then having him haughtily ignore them? It's one thing to be dissed by a "warmongering cowboy moron" that the entire collective global Left scorns and detests; it's quite another to be dismissed by your god, lord, master, messiah, and savior, even if he can't draw more than Hasselhoff numbers at the Brandenburg Gate.
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