Nor is there any more validity to the notion of legal reasoning when the source of law is constitutional or statutory provision or the language of an agreement.
Law is simply politics by other means.
The very term, 'International Law', evokes in us a sense of calm, arising from the near certainty that an umbrella of law shields and protects us from the raging downpour of chaos. So often have we heard the words, that it now echoes in consciousness, as a thing unquestioned. Indeed, it is a 'thing' to us, a living reality that, like pornography, may be difficult to describe, but you know it when you see it. The late, revered Malcolm X taught that history is best equipped to reward our research, so let us look to history. Over a million ethnic Armenians were annihilated under Turkey's Ittihad Party, and millions of Jews were massacred under Germany's Nazi party.