FIRE WITH FIRE

So the news is out again drawing world attention to Israel's practice of assassinating leaders of terrorist movements that advocate "death too all Israelis". For the most part, what I see is global condemnation of this practice. I, however, am of somewhat of a different opinion. I look at what I see going on in the Middle East and in middle Asia, in the "stans", and other places around the world. I see what Hezbollah is doing in Lebanon, what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan, what the Tamil Tigers are doing in Sri Lanka, what the Lord's Resistance Army is doing in Uganda, and I have to ask.......are all the civilian deaths, all the raping and pillaging, and all the trauma suffered by innocent people worth leaving the despotic, dangerous, and thoughtless leaders of militias and/or armies of thugs, who cause these events and who have no regard for human life, unscathed and alive to wreak further havoc and destroy more innocent lives; or is it better to kill one man (I know of no women leaders who are in this arena) or a small group of men who cause such human suffering? I would have to say that the Israeli's have come up with a pretty darn good way of dealing with this problem. And, I wonder how different Iraq would have been if we had just sent in the US special forces or better yet some Mafia hit men to assassinate Saddam and his sons, leaving the rest of the country intact for some kind of democratic process to evolve in. I wonder how different the Balkans might have been if we had sent in one or two assassins to kill Milosovic as opposed to letting him continue with his ruthless and barbaric ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Right now, the present world policy of preserving these terrorist and fascist provocateurs and thugs and leaving the general (and I might add, for the most part) innocent populations to bear the brunt of death and destruction is wrong.......dead wrong. Someone has to stand up for the people who have no defense or alternatives. In a way, the US is pursuing the "Israeli solution" in its search to destroy al Queda. Yet the outcry in the US and elsewhere toward Israel's policy of leader assignation for enemies who have pledged the total and unilateral destruction of Israel and the Jews does not take into account that, when faced with a similar enemy (i.e., one that wants to destroy western culture) we have adopted the same strategy.

Now many nations, in particular their leaders, would say this is a misguided policy, mainly because they see that they could one day be caught in the cross hairs of an assassin's gun. I would say that, "Well, better do right by your people and by others on the planet and you will not be at risk"! If world leaders want to insure that some crackpot does not just take umbrage to some political policy that insures their targeting for assassination, I say let's establish a World Court, where such charges could be leveled, the evidence presented, and where rulings could be made. That would allow all people with strong grievances to come forth, make injustices known, document what is happening, and then have the world rule on whether the actions of the accused were warranted or not. If not and if they were egregious enough, then that person could be condemned to death as an enemy to humanity and assassins could be sent to terminate that person's life. Perhaps this is one way to reign in the chaos and to make hate and war mongers accountable for their actions before they destroy too many innocent people. It would also put them and other world leaders on notice that we now have a global society and bullying and racial and ethnic or religious hatred will not be tolerated at any level.

Will it work? I think it could. I believe that people should be held accountable for their actions and if their actions cause the death of innocent civilians, then they should pay and they should pay with their lives since they have no respect for anyone elses. Now I am sure that this solution would strike fear into the hearts of many western governments (the ones with the true power on this planet seeing as they have the vast majority of the military and economic might in the world at this point in time), but they can be just as guilty of crimes as third world despots and leaders of terrorist groups. Nevertheless, they should be held accountable for their policies , the same was as any other person on the planet.

Posted by Straight Talk on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at Saturday, December 16, 2006 | Permalink