Assassination - Re: What is the moral course

[Dennis]

> Charismatic leaders and the historical context that brings them to power
> are inexorably interwoven.  However, to suggest that the course of events
> is not altered by the actions of said leaders is quite naive.  You happen
> to be in good company, though.  Tolstoy thought likewise.
>
> -- Luke

Well, your formulation seems mystical to me: the "what if" school of poli
sci. "If" Pol Pot had been offed in the US bombing from 1970 -75 that killed
some 600,000 Cambodians and ripped the country wide open, would the KR have
ceased to exist? Would the nativist anger against US bombing been of little
import? Somehow I doubt it, but, again, who really knows? I don't, and you,
my academic friend don't either.

DP