Professor Balkin, even after consulting the I Ching, has reservations about going to war with Iraq:

The major problem, as I see it, is that we really don't know how long the war will last, how many people will be killed and dislocated, how many refugees we will create, how many lives we will shorten through sickness and famine, whether we will destabilize other regimes in the Middle East, and whether America's enemies will use our preoccupation to gain advantages elsewhere in the world (think about North Korea, for example).

Kitchen Cabinet reader GH responds:

[W]hat war has America fought in the past 220 some-odd years where we did know how long it would last, how many would die or anything else? By the newly proposed "Balkin Doctrine," not only would we never fight another war under any circumstances, we wouldn't have fought any past wars either! There are good cases to be made against war with Iraq, but this is one of the worst attempts yet seen in blogland. Maybe the moral is that law professors should be careful about arguing military strategy?

Amidst the barrage of criticism tonight, the Kitchen Cabinet emphasizes that it has the utmost admiration for Professor Balkin, who is deservedly one of the most popular professors at YLS. It's just that none of our other professors are hip enough to have blogs... The day Bruce Ackerman starts blogging is the day we leave Jack Balkin alone!

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