..."if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body... [View All]

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

On one very slim level, that might actually make MY day, but I with many other DUers would be outliers in the mass reaction of the rest of the United States -- and, all joking aside, I believe that regardless of the hyperbolic sense of justice of this imagined action, we'd all quickly rally around the flag/troops/etc, outraged at the violation of our borders/security/sovereignty.

Here's Noam Chomsky's take on the bin Laden assassination. Worth a read whether you agree with him or not.


http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/


Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death

(snip)

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.

(snip)