Assassination - Re: What is the moral course

[Dennis]

> Secret assassination has a problem, since it's disallows democratic
> accountability.  But I have no conception of why progressives should be
> opposed to public assassination, unless they are complete pacificists.
> Killing the leader of an enemy nation or organization seems infinitely
> preferable to killing drafted soldiers or many civilians.  In many cases,
> assassination may be ineffective, but that is a separate issue from the
> moral concern.
>
> -- Nathan Newman

Well, of course this only works one way -- "our" way. If US terms for
allowing enemy leaders to be assassinated were evenly applied, then Daniel
Ortega would have had every right to call for the killing of Ronald Reagan,
for instance. Indeed, every leader would be stalking his or her opposite,
which probably goes on anyway, but is this what we wish to encourage?

DP