At one point, Harry offers this rationale for the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the form of a warning to an incredulous American diplomat.
When the United States executed American citizen Anwar-al-Awlaki and his son in Yemen via drone strike on September 30 , 2011 the rationale for the attack was that al-Awlaki had been labeled "an unprivileged enemy belligerent". Under the 2012 NDAA, any American citizen can now be labeled the same.
The link to the leaders of Al Qaeda terrorist network was part of the rationale for the attacks today in Afghanistan, where Mr. bin Laden and his associates are believed to be hiding, officials said.
The rationale for this attack is straight forward.
Mr. Kerry said the threat depended on not only the ability to build weapons, but also on "analysis of the nature of the relationships with a country, the rationale for an attack, the possibilities of an attack, the levels of deterrence".
But the presence of armed troops, members of a division that defected from the army, has provided the government with a new rationale for attacking the demonstrators and increased the prospect that the conflict will erupt into civil war.
A spokesman for Al Shabab said that a rejection of such meddling was one rationale for the group's attack on Mohamud last Wednesday.
Those allegations were the main rationale for the US-led attack and occupation of Iraq, but no weapons have been found almost nine months after the start of the war.
"On KSM's rationale for attacking the United States, see Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, Sept. 5, 2003 (in this regard, KSM's statements echo those of Yousef, who delivered an extensive polemic against U.S. foreign policy at his January 1998 sentencing)," the footnote said.
"President Obama will ensure that the United States of America makes our decisions on our own timelines, based on our values and our interests," he said in forceful remarks from the State Department that presented the administration's rationale for an attack.
Whether or not the Security Council imposes a stringent new timetable, backed by threat of arms, the renewed inspections will be far more rigorous than in the past.Americans have been speaking openly of a scenario whereby an "inspections crisis", such as being denied access to a particular site, would help to build the political rationale for an attack.
