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>>> One senses that, had the plan been approved by Mr. Clinton or Mr. Obama, >>> the response from the left side of Congress and the media would have been >>> quite different. In fact, Mr. Clinton did fire a cruise missile at a bin >>> Laden hideout during his term, and Mr. Obama has continued the Bush border >>> bombings. So what is wrong with a bit of low-tech state murder? There is a deeply practical aspect to this question. The surgical strike of an anonymous targeted killing leaves few others harmed as long as martyrs are not created. But conventional wars can ruin millions of lives. Try a thought experiment on Iraq. Would not a dead Saddam Hussein have been preferable to what the world has been through in that particular American adventure? The other side says, “Targeted killings bring us down to the level of our adversaries. Al-Qaeda may feel free to kill us, by the thousands if they can, but we cannot act like them. We say we are for freedom and due process and the rule of law. These things do not permit state assassinations.” This is a good moral debate, and it should be held. What one can say for sure today is that Democratic triumphalism and the need to twist the last inch of knife into Mr. Bush's political corpse may end up hindering the very things Mr. Obama wants done. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
