What is the moral course

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 17 11:05:52 PDT 2001



>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>In a nutshell,
>>it's a demand to the Gov to find the guilty parties
>>and those closely associated and blow them to kingdom
>>come
>
>I'm curious how many folks here are opposed to tracking down the
>perps and dealing with them in some form, whether it's blowing them
>to kingdom come, or some Fisk-like trial in an international court.
>Is the revolutionary defeatist position that the U.S. should do
>nothing against OBL, assuming it was his crew that did the work?

I oppose military action or any form of revenge. We are dealing with a very serious crime, not war, unless we start one. In addition, I think that military action would be counterproductive as well as illegal, and morally wrong--because it will result in additional thousands of innocent deaths. It always does.

I support a proper police inquiry and a trial, whether in an international tribunal or an American court. I see no real objection to an Ameriacn venue. We _certainly_ have jurisdiction over acts committed on US soil, and I think that a trial could be as fair here as anywhere. Depends on the judge, of course, but that would also be true in the Hague, and I don't see why anyone should be able to evade being tried where he commits his crimes just by making them awful enough. It's sort of a risk you run in committing awful crimes that they make people hate you.


>
>Doug

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