State Sanctioned AssasinationFollow

On one hand, our troops are not in the line of fire. We can safely target somebody or something from miles away, fire a missile, and eliminate that threat without posing a threat to ourselves.

On the other hand, we lose face with rest of the world.

I think I know which one is the better option.

I was under the impression the al-Qaida were always on dead-or-alive status since 9/11.

And I don't think it's technically "assassination" if he's not a head of state or political leader.


Some info here: http://www.terrorismanswers.org/policy/assassination.html


I'd buy that.




Edited, Mon Dec 5 11:46:34 2005 by trickybeck

Well, he's always circumsized in my dreams, so I just assumed.

you do realize that other nations and militaries use munitions from the US dont you?

as for state sanctioned assasinations against terrorists i am 100% for it, but for other heads of state i am 100% against it.

so yes I support what Isreal does against the Hamas and IJ, but that is also why the US stopped Isreal from assasinating Arafat(sp?) because he was the reccognized Head of State of Palistine.

If a missle that was built in the US was used to kill a terrorist then who cares. it would/should not matter were the missle was made or came from, only that a terrorist is DEAD.

I think the concern may not be that we assasinated the guy, but that we did it in a country we are allied with, most likely without their notice.

Imagine, if you will, that a pakistani drone killed an Al-Qaida guy on US soil.

Sure, most citizen's wouldn't care (unless innocent civilian's died too), but the government would be a bit perturbed that this was done on our soil, without notice, dontcha think?

You can't really draw a direct comparison because there hasn't been joint U.S.-Pakistani efforts for the last three or four years to find al'Qaida agents in the U.S.

I can't think of a situation where our own military and intelligence would be less capable of handling it than someone else's. I guess if someone attacked London or Tel Aviv and fled to the wilds of Montana, we might have British or Israeli troops working with the U.S. to locate them. But that's not real likely to happen.

If it was just a question of thinking there might be terrorists hiding out where the deer and the antelope play, I can't imagine why we'd be looking for Pakistanti assistance in locating and killing them.