Casus belli?
Oh, that would surely be daft, to say the least. But we have to consider more than one single act.
- Karsten B. Motvind.
It's remarkable how often people advocating a really monumentally useless and counterproductive course of action try to justify it on grounds of how dire they perceive the situation to be. As if doing something completely unhelpful were somehow less irrational if the problem were really severe.