Ralph Peters praises the ruthlessness of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner who has authorised the expansion of ‘drone’ attacks on key terrorist suspects overseas:

The Pakistani Taliban is losing CEOs faster than Detroit …

This is another Amazon Space issue. The best (if not only) way to deal with individual terrorist formations lurking in foreign lands – if the governments of the states concerned are unable or unwilling to do it – is not to invade the place and create all sorts of new tensions and contradictions.

Instead it is to proclaim them to be enemies and then hit them before they hit us. 

Thus a new international law precept starts to emerge.

Every country in our networked world benefits from the network. So every country has a responsibility to do what it can to defend the global network from attacks by criminal extremists trying to wreak wider havoc.

If a country can’t or won’t suppress extremists on its territory, it necessarily forfeits its sovereignty to the extent necessary to allow others to defend the network by taking such action as they see fit, with minimum intrusiveness and respectable proportionality.

These extremists challenge the West’s very will to defend itself. Fine.

Whiz.

Bang.