tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post2074583678551209716..comments2024-01-25T14:51:13.377-05:00Comments on Gamso - For the Defense: Another One DownJeff Gamsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-2589954373097494402011-10-23T16:24:40.421-04:002011-10-23T16:24:40.421-04:00I don't know that any two killings are really ...I don't know that any two killings are really equivalent, and there are differences, certainly, among formal assassinating a sitting head of state, a head of anything else, killing a person just declared killable, executing a prisoner after full legal process, executing someone after faux legal process, killing an enemy soldier on the battlefield, killing civilians as collateral damage during a bombing raid say, and garden variety murder.<br /><br />What they all have in common is that someone ends up dead.<br /><br />There's no limit to the extent of plausible argument about whether this or that killing was justified or about which offense is worse than which other offense (or better, I suppose). But I'm altogether comfortable with the basic claim that Qadaffi was murdered. (Whether it was an assassination or a "political killing" or an extra-judicial execution or whatever, he wasn't killing during battle; it wasn't self defense, it certainly wasn't the Rule of Law in action.)<br /><br />And regardless of how it happened and what moral measure it deserves, rejoicing in killing seems to me altogether and always wrong.Jeff Gamsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-61987449282008940022011-10-23T12:18:24.452-04:002011-10-23T12:18:24.452-04:00You don't think there's a difference betwe...You don't think there's a difference between the planned assassination by one government of another leader, or more egregiously, of one of its own citizens abroad, and the killing of a dictator in a revolution? I'm usually with you 110%, but on this issue I have to differ. He wasn't a prisoner of war of another nation, he was a deposed tyrant. It's not as if any trial they held would have been a tribute to the rule of law. This was a political killing, not a combat or criminal one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com