I wonder what Luap Nor would have thought of the assassination of Admiral Yamamoto in World War 2? Congress had declared war, it is true, but acts of the US Congress do not define or limit what is regarded as a state of war in international law. The existence of actual warfare, declared or otherwise, does. Unlike Osama, Yamamoto didn’t have any outstanding warrants and he had not even been seriously accused of a crime.

The Paulians no doubt would have bleated and cried about the Yamamoto killing anyway, since the whole Pacific war was a result of the tyrant FDR’s machinations to involve in the European war and thwart the legitimate aspirations of the German people.