ConservativeINC

If Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and every other thug in the world were dead the world would be a better place. These men represent the worse that there is and are responsible for a large amount of the suffering that goes on in this world.

Killing these men would be the moral thing to do because it would make the world a safer and healthier place to live. If we had killed Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, and Stalin before WWII started, say in 1935, we would have avoided the deaths of millions during the war and tens of millions that resulted due to the spread of communism afterwards. Why is it that no widely read historian I have heard about points this out?

Killing some or all of these men and others like them will prevent them from raising armies and partisans who will work for them. They will no longer be able to take whole countries and peoples over the deep-end and throw the world into chaos. Assassinations are called for in these situations because these “leaders” are hell-bent on destroying the world we live in for another they like better.

If Bill Clinton had acted on the opportunities he had to kill or capture Osama maybe 9-11 would not have happened. Using the predator drone to shoot a missile at that funeral in Afghanistan some time ago could have seriously disrupted al-Qaeda’s operations and saved some lives. If Kennedy had supported the revolutionaries at the Bay of Pigs maybe Cuba could have been a better place to live and one of our allies.

We do not live in a world where we can sit back and live in secure isolation. That has never really been the case throughout history even. If you are the big dog on the scene you automatically have extra responsibilities. We are the international version of Shane.

The morality question regarding assassinations has never swayed me much. And unlike all the Bourne movies (The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy) I don’t think the assassins would have much a problem with it either. Furthermore, killing the 1,000 people who are part of the ruling class would seem to be a lot more palpable than killing tens of thousands of civilians, military personnel, and the assorted human shields who would have to be killed when the tin-pot thought he was strong enough to expand his kingdom.

Either we pay the price now and kill these people or we will pay a much steeper price later on. BigT