This absolutist approach leaves little room for nuanced analysis or middle ground, which makes listener feedback all the more valuable, as few problems of our nation and world are subject to resolution in three paragraphs or fewer. It is for this reason that I was gratified to hear from an Elite lawyer, pointing out that the Israeli "targeted assassination" practice might be deemed legal under certain Law of War tenets (she doubts so), but her much more substantive concern is for the immorality and corrosive impact that the use of lethal violence w/o. any due process has on the national character of the country employing mafia-style hit teams. I therefore exercise my right of the blogisphere to amend and supplement my prior entry to incorporate this pointed insight.
The Law of War should never be invoked to justify non-judicially sanctioned executions except in the circumstance of preserving the nation's very survival, as I believe is the situation between Israel and Hamas. Also, the exercise of this right of self defense creates no immunity for the inadvertent or intentional killing of innocents. Any deaths of innocents will not be dismissed as merely collateral damage normally excusable in war fighting. Surely, while the fear of becoming like the enemy is always a danger to watch out for, I put my trust in the war fighting views of Abraham Lincoln and General LeMay: Do all that is necessary to defeat the enemy swiftly, then apply all national resources to restore the quality of life of the vanquished adversary.
To be moral, a person and a nation must first remain alive.
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