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brianearp
03-09-2012, 08:07 AM
RON PAUL mentioned in this post on Oxford's Practical Ethics:

ASSASSINATING CITIZENS: How not to fight terror

The U.S. government is legally justified in killing its own citizens overseas if they are involved in plotting terror attacks against America, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday.

“In this hour of danger, we simply cannot afford to wait until deadly plans are carried out, and we will not,” he said in remarks prepared for a speech at Northwestern University’s law school in Chicago.

Pay attention to Mr. Holder’s choice of words here. This hour of danger? Excuse me: an “hour” is a bounded stretch of time – and not very long. But terrorism is a threat with no border – it has existed always, and will continue indefinitely. The “war on terror” cannot be won: you can kill a terrorist, sure, but you cannot eliminate a tactic. So let us not talk about an “hour.” This sort of speech is insidious. We all know that an hour takes sixty minutes and then it’s finished. But terrorism will present a “danger” forever.

So how should we respond? [Full blog post at the link below]

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/03/“in-this-hour-of-danger”-the-problem-with-declaring-war-on-a-tactic/

CaseyJones
03-09-2012, 08:12 AM
one thread is enough Brian

Simple
03-09-2012, 11:16 AM
Noam Chomsky had a great answer on the issue. He said that if we want to end terror we simply need to quit participating in it.

Source: Juice News is always a good watch, but the quote is @5:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-rxe9Ayb8c