Jerusalem Post Says: "Kill Arafat"
So:
Arafat must be killed
because Arafat is a problem.
Why is he a problem? Why is he evil? Why is this drastic solution acceptable?
Because Arafat has a nasty habit of
killing people
to
solve
problems....
Substitute Arafat for Sharon, or anyone else you've demonized, and the logic is just as good.
I wonder what the response in America would have been, if, during the Cold War, Pravda had editorialized on the utility of assassinating John "amphetamine" Kennedy, or Ronald "Evil Empire" Reagan. Or if Libyan newspapers had published a list of reasons for killing the children of America's Presidents (after our attempt to assassinate Khadafi missed, but killed his baby daughter).
<....minimizing collateral damage, but not letting that damage stop us... ...the world leaves us no
alternative...>
It's so important to them, to all of us, to think of ourselves as civilized. Good, moral, or at least better by contrast. And so, we make self-deception, shifting blame, into a habit.
For instance, the only other response to your post, is the suggestion that we keep our hands clean the way Pontius Pilate did, by arranging to have others do the deed. |
