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Originally Posted by politicophile
In an age where catastrophic damage can be wrecked upon the United States by any number of countries or terrorist organizations, having an itchy trigger-finger is a small price to pay. If a few "innocent" despotic, sadistic, dispicable dictators get the axe as a result, I won't have any trouble sleeping at night.
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I've read too many of your posts to genuinely believe that you meant this as literally as it reads to me. [translation: my perception is that you're more intelligent than this statement appears to me].
How can you condense international wars to the death of a "few 'innocent' despotic[...]dictators?" I would have been more comfortable with your standpoint had you argued for preemptive assassinations...but preemptive wars between sovereign nations? I haven't seen the evidence that more harm is reduced by such actions...
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