Going to tell me to stop talking and let someone else speak, but, well, if we get to the point where it is imminent and we didnt do something about it when we could have, then the moment counts as imminent. Now, thats an interesting definition of imminent. And im not a lawyer, but at what level do we, the American People, or at least our elected representatives need to understand that . Justification number three is International Humanitarian law says states may use force in selfdefense, but what constitutes self defense . If isis in iraq is threatening the iraqi state and iraq is partner of ours, is a state that we have agreements with but not a treaty ally, does that constitute selfdefense . If we know about an alqaeda attack imminent not against the u. S. , but against a nato ally, does that count as selfdefense . If we know about an attack on a Shopping Mall where americans might be targets, does that count as selfdefense . And those are all really hard questions that there arent f