Dear Ken: Thank you for the legal opinion you sent. You will appreciate its similarity to mine in this article, which we just published: http://www.fgfbooks.com/Black/2014/Black141210.html. Please feel free to disseminate it widely. As a Division Chief in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, the Pentagon, I was conversant with the fundamentals of the Law of Land Warfare and related provisions of international law. I was pleased when PM Stephen Harper announced that Canada would not bomb Syria, which is a neutral, non-belligerent nation. I hope he will continue to observe international law, and avoid hostile actions against Syria, which is civilization’s bulwark against terrorism and savagery. America’s alliance with terrorists is not only obscenely illicit; it is suicidal madness. The very idea of simultaneously attacking ISIS and its principal foe is incomprehensible to rational minds. Warm Regards, Dick Richard H. Black Senator of Virginia, 13th District (703) 468-1342 SenatorBlack@usa.net www.SenatorBlack.com