Posted on 05/10/2011 4:57:07 PM PDT by forty_years
... In terms of vanquishing terrorism, targeted assassinations can be classified as a measured response in that they exclusively focus on actual perpetrators of militant attacks, while dramatically reducing collateral damage in terms of civilian and non-combatant casualties. In a 2010 article entitled "Targeted Killings Work" that appeared in Infinity Journal, the argument was made that targeted assassinations are a strategy that entails "limited force in support of policy" and that it has proven most successful. ...
Great book (aside: Spielberg’s too PC for me a la the movie).
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I actually thought the film made a pretty convincing case for counter-terrorism, although I'm sure that wasn't the intention when that lefty slug Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay.
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