It's Tuesday, March 10, 2006.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Is President Donald Trump violating international law in terms of the military action against Iran? Is this a violation of the law of the nations?

Is the president's action illegal in terms of international law?

Well, we're looking at some really huge questions here.

We're going to really take a close look at what's at stake.

But I want to point, first of all, to the fact that a lot of people are talking about international law without ever telling us what it is.

Now, if you're talking about law in the United States, well, you've got different jurisdictions.

There is local law.

There's going to be state law.

There's going to be federal law.

But you can pretty much figure out what the law is. Now, there are all kinds of complications,

all kinds of situations, all kinds of judgments to be made, but it is a thing. It is a body of law.

In the old days before the digital age, it was printed in massive volumes. There it is, black and

white, in print. And the authority for those laws are very, very clear.

The authority of the federal government, the government of the United States of America,

the authority of the 50 states or the authority vested in local government.

All of those, in their own sphere, all of them have laws and they are real.

They're real things.

You can find them in a book. Nowadays, you can go online and find them. There's some problems with the complexities and all the rest,

but that's a conversation for a different day. The point is, you can walk into a law library in the

United States and look at the law. However, if you're going to talk about international law, well, there you're

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