The Bethlehem Doctrine and the New Definition of Imminent

A Political Junkie at Viable Opposition - 23 hours ago

In this posting, I want to take a look at the concept of imminence as it relates to terrorist attacks in specific. While the concept of imminence may seem obvious to most of you, as you will see in this posting, the post-9/11 use of the word imminence (or imminent) is driven by government's desire to justify its extralegal actions against other state and non-state actors. Let's start with this tweet from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Here's Mike Pompeo once again reiterating the imminence of the looming Iranian terror attack while being interviewed on CNN on January 3, 2020: N... more »