I'm reading a book that includes the CIA and assassinations of political leaders that are deemed to be bad for the USA.

 

Are you cool with these assassinations?

I'm reading a book that includes the CIA and assassinations of political leaders that are deemed to be bad for the USA.

 

Are you cool with these assassinations?

 

Is this book fact or fiction?

Completely in the "what I don't know can't hurt me" camp.

Is this book fact or fiction?

 

Fiction

Fiction

 

I don't believe this type activity is in keeping with the spirit of our country, but I'm not naive enough to believe that it hasn't happened on our side, or others?? In the words of Jack Nickolson--"You want the truth; you can't handle the truth"!!

For those that are cool with it (I'm in that camp) what is your logic? Essentially we're saying its OK to murder someone who hasn't threatened the country.

 

How do we rationalize it?

For those that are cool with it, I'd assume you are cool with are president being assassinated as well?

For those that are cool with it, I'd assume you are cool with are president being assassinated as well?

 

Winner winner. You rolled right into my line of thinking. In the book I'm reading by Vince Flynn called "Term Limits" a group of former SEALS kills off 4 senators who they see as corrupt and causing harm to the country due to, in their opinion, the proclivity for outrageous spending. Their view is that these senators are no different than a foreign dictator that the CIA would take out in order to further the cause of the US or to prevent potential future harm/terrorism to the US.

 

While reading it I was thinking that with today's hostility towards govt being worse than I ever recall it and the rhetoric on both sides being so ugly that someone is going to use this rationale to take out a US political leader.

 

It made me question my belief that its cool to assassinate a foreign leader. I'm having trouble rationalizing my initial thought.

Surely, there is a group responsible for assassinations. Especially since it is stated policy to 'assassinate' American citizens deemed as threats (see previous thread in this forum on that).

 

So, if they have a group that is responsible for being 'the hammer', it is likely a lot of leaders look like 'nails' and it may be viewed as a quick fix.

 

I am sure they would like use this hammer on the leaders of totalitarian, closed regimes where other methods of behavior modification have failed - i.e. the 2 remaining Axis of evils - NK and Iran.

 

Its a tool that should be keep deep, deep inside the tool bag of foreign policy.

I like the one where the CIA agent lost his memory and the CIA sends out Assassins to stop him. I have all three movies and repeat them a lot.

It is a fine line, but had somebody assassinated Hitler before 1939 there might be several million people alive today who aren't?

For those that are cool with it, I'd assume you are cool with are president being assassinated as well?

 

If some country has the "cajones" and is stupid enough to it, more power to them. And may God have mercy on the poor innocent souls of that country that have to deal with the consequences...

For those that are cool with it, I'd assume you are cool with are president being assassinated as well?

 

You know what they say when you assume...

 

How do you make that connection?

If some country has the "cajones" and is stupid enough to it, more power to them. And may God have mercy on the poor innocent souls of that country that have to deal with the consequences...

 

Can I ask why you're OK with the US being involved in assassinations? I could guess but I don't want to assume. We all have our reasons.

Edited August 10, 201016 yr by Clyde

You know what they say when you assume...

 

How do you make that connection?

 

How do you not? How would it be ok for us to do and not expect other nations to do the same? :idunno: