RE: Tit for tat.
August 2, 2022 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2022 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 2, 2022 at 10:45 am)Jehanne Wrote: It seems to me that the United States' killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri is just going to perpetuate the cycle of violence in our World, perhaps leading to a nuclear holocaust. Why not take the high road and renounce extrajudicial executions? In spite of being a mass murderer, as a human being, Ayman al-Zawahiri was still entitled to due process under the Law. I find it ironic that President Joe Biden, who opposes the death penalty, would authorize the deliberate killing of another human being.
The us tried extradition for trial. We were told to go pound sand. That's how the war in afghanistan started.
As for executions. A state killing it's own citizens and states killing other states citizens aren't exactly equivalent, there are dangers to one not present in others. A man with a state that another state is trying to kill at least has some help from his state. A man with a state whom the state itself is trying to kill is well and truly fucked. Just ask those militants that no state would claim once they became toxic, and whose governments cooperated with the efforts to track them down.
IDK how much irony there is in this. I would expect people who have strong reservations about capital punishment to also respond some kind of way to mass killings and those who perpetrate them. I know I'd prefer we didn't kill each other - but my preferences hardly matter in a conflict.
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