07 Oct Speaking of Evolving Approaches to Counterterrorism
The recent raids in Libya and Somalia have, among other things, raises renewed questions about how the U.S. can/should carry out its counterterrorism operations without, as President Obama puts it, “keeping America on a perpetual wartime footing.” Delighted to say we’ll be taking up just that topic in an evening panel I’ll be moderating in New York next Monday. Public most welcome with an RSVP to floersheimercenter@gmail.com.
Law at the End of War? Fighting Terrorism after Afghanistan
Monday, October 14, 2013, 6 p.m.
Cardozo Law School
55 Fifth Avenue, New YorkPanelists:
Lt. Gen. David Barno (Ret.)
Senior Adviser and Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security and Former Commander of U.S. Forces in AfghanistanJohn Bellinger
Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP and Former State Department Legal AdviserMary DeRosa
Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown Law Center and Former Legal Adviser to the National Security Council under President ObamaAli Soufan
CEO, The Soufan Group and
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent
very good — and one way would be to focus on the law of self-defense (the self-defense paradigm) instead of the war paradigm (esp., Mr. President, because the U.S. cannot be at “war” with al Qaeda).