"Justified Terrorist Acts" Re: Al-Q Honcho Hit

[Dennis Perrin]

> On the right edge of LBO-talk, there is *no limit* to justification
> of *any means* -- including nukes -- used by the US government.  If
> the US government resorts to using a nuke, legalizing torture, etc.
> in the near future, no doubt we will see some LBO-talkers defending
> them, provided they are used "judiciously," dismissing objections as
> mere "legalistic hand-wringing."  Sometimes, I just have to wonder
> what's an "L" doing in LBO-talk.  Quite often, the list would be more
> fittingly titled BO-talk, as in Belligerent Observer-talk.
> --
> Yoshie

Recall that Yoshie, looking back on the Red Army's slaughter of a couple
million Afghans and the deployment of millions of mines, approved, since it
was "socialist" state violence that piled up the bodies, free of
"legalistic" restraint.

So, let us view her objections in that context, and not in the "antiwar" one
she pushes here.

DP