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Originally Posted by strelnik
How about this: Would it have been ok to kill Hitler in 1935 if you thought he might be a bad guy in 1939?
>>>>>See sjh's answer
What about if he had't exterminated Jews and other undesirables?
>>>> In that case, what would he have been guilty of? war against us? Then the usual conventions would apply.
Notice we never tried to kill Ho Chi Minh.
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I don't know that we didn't try to kill that ol' Ho. I'll bet every USAF pilot who dropped a bomb hoped he'd have the million-dollar ticket.
Would you say that we did or did not specifically target Hussein when we attacked Iraq? I think we did, but we used the figleaf of "command and control targets".
Actually, I have less compunction about targeting an enemy head of state than I do targeting an American citizen accused of a crime. That particular argument seems to have been pulled from my grasp in that he is reported to have renounced his citizenship.
Strangely, I don't feel reassured to know that the executive and legislative branches collude in the targeting and killing of unindicted citizens.