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rdtsc on Feb 28, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Current State of Spycraft

> The US has assassinated A LOT of al Qaeda and Taliban members in the "war on terror",

I don't like the "if we do it, it's ok" ethics though. So if US does and does it A LOT (sic) then it's ok?

Enra2 on March 1, 2010 [–]

I'm not american. Not a big fan of US foreign policy either. My point is that being upset about assassination of foreign leaders because it is "a crime" looks pretty silly unless you are a full blown pacifist (and thus not OK with any of the killing states at war have done). In that case you look pretty silly anyway.

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