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Firstly as Mr. Mojo's quote shows, the idea of Swordfish isn't controlled well thought out and contained assassination, it is in fact fighting terrorism with greater terrorism.
Sanctioning the idea of nuking a city over the death of an American tourist is ridiculous. It employs the same macabre reasoning of Osama Bin Laden an Co, which is the idea that you can target innocent civilians to place pressure on your enemy, by acting in such a way as to place at least some of the responsibility on the enemy and then raising the stakes with increased violence. Frankly, what's the point of fighting against terrorists if you resort to terrorism to do so.
If however you are talking about a less extreme version of fighting terrorism through assassination I disagree with this also. Fighting terrorism is not about eliminating individuals, killing Osama Bin Laden will not end terrorism, in fact it is impossible to end terrorism through killing, unless of course you make it an outright genocide. Assassination has not helped Israel's situation and Mossad's been doing it for decades, it has failed to stem the violent attacks on Israeli civilians.
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