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V International Relations Which mean that we must value how we use are foreign policy tools to work out are problems with other nations. Merriam Webster Dictionary VC Self Defense of a Nation Defending ones nation within the regard to self defence. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Definitions 1. Targeted killings is defined the premeditated, preemptive, and deliberate Killing of an individual or individuals known to represent a clear and present threat to the Safety and security of a state through affiliation with terrorist groups or individuals Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2. Foreign Policy is the policy of a sovereign state in its interaction with other sovereign states Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Observations 1. The only time Targeted killing is necessary. That international human rights law's requirement that any deprivation of life by the state be ‘absolutely necessary' means that doing so is lawful only if ‘in the concrete circumstances, the killing of a person is qualitatively, quantitatively and temporally indispensable for the removal of the threat in question' and that human rights law's requirement of ‘proportionality' means that the threat in question must be ‘an unlawful attack on human life' Source War Ethics BBC 2. The difference between Targeted killing and Assassination Thus, we are able to draw a distinct line between assassination and targeted killing. In Sort: assassination is a killing conducted against an individual or individuals for purely Political or ideological reasons. Targeted killing, in sum, is a killing conducted against an Individual or individuals without regard for politics or ideology, but rather exclusively for Reasons of state self-defense. Targeted Killing Selfdefense or Assasination 3. Limitations to targeted killing. Targeted killing is not the killing of a terrorist during routine military or security operations, such as bombing a suspected terrorist camp simply to deny its use by extremists, or raiding a suspected safe house in which unknown terrorists may be located. Targeted killing, for the purposes of this paper, is limited to the specific selection of an individual or indiï¿½viduals, who are then tracked down and intentionally killed due to their specific involvement in a terrorist group or action. Stanford Enclyclopedia of Philosophy 4. The Resolution states it as a foreign policy tool this means that it is one of many tools so yes we need to use alternatives before killing but when those alternatives fail this is when we need to use targeted killing. Resolutional Analysis by Cindy Pedersen Contentions 1. Targeted Killing is Self Defense A. Self-defense in the war on terror. The recourse to targeted killing (in itself, preemption), then, may be viewed as a legitimate self-defense in the war against terrorism. As the threat is often transnational and asymmetric, the Units institutionally and materially ill-equipped to deal with each terrorist threat as it arises and spreads. Thus, nations are largely left on their own to resolve the problem. B. UN Says its self defense Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack This part of the carter states that nothing in the United Nations Charter will take away the right to self defense and as Targeted killing is Self defense. 2. Prevents and Ends wars A. Ends wars quickly Israel's strike against Arab targets in the opening hours of the Six Day War in 1967.18,19 While a conventional attack (as opposed to asymmetric) and unrelated to terrorism, it is clear that ample evidence existed to convince Israel that a wide scale invasion was imminent and that it needed to strike first in order to survive the expected conflict.20 While undertaken without UN authorization, the negative political conseï¿½quences of this action were few, due to the obvious nature of the pending threat. Thus ending the war quickly. Analysis of the 6 day war Pg 86 3 International law Supports The international law regulating … targeted killing does not present an absolute obstacle to…targeted killing. International customary and also treaty law does not prohibit the sort of open attacks generally employed by the U.S. when it strikes directly at foreign leaders in wartime. The laws of war give the U.S. much more legal freedom to apply deadly force than a body of law like human rights law during peacetime. United States Review of Targeted killing. Thank you and vote in Aff