All right, here’s a real exit question to which I already know everyone’s answer: Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

It depends … if they past the Litvinenko criteria test, perhaps.

/sarcasm off/

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So if Scientists are fair game then what about Loral Aerospace honcho Bernard “Bernie” Schwartz?

Then how about Sandy Berger.

Then how about er……..

Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

They very simply are targets for assassination, just like anyone else, and a few spectacular examples would remind them of that circumstance. As for jdpaz’s remarks at 9:47 AM, I don’t know whether a scientist working for Islam is fair game or not, but I say that even if he’s not fair game, he’s still game.

No neat clean answers but that’s why we need the Jack Bauers.

Do we kill the guys plant IEDs?

Yes, they are fair game.

But do we not also kill the guys who MAKE the EIDs?

Yes, but that’s a jihadi, a scientist is just doin’ his job.

And it’s OUR job to prevent a nuke from killin’ millions of our people.

But, but the Iranians might be FORCING him to make nukes!

Well then the Iranians are FORCING us to kill their scientists. And for all we know, the scientists might just be jihadis too and makin’ these bombs in the name of allah to kill infidels. Better safe than sorry. Kill ‘em.

Given the damage the V-1s and V-2s did later in the war, and given that the Nazis had an even more dangerous missile, the V-3, on the drawing boards, a very sound military and moral argument can be made for those raids.

By logical extension, assassinating important Iranian nuclear scientists,OR BOMBING IRANIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITIES would also be militarily and morally justified.

Exit question: Since no one seems to have any idea, why even continue to blog this story?

I’ll get bact to that….

real exit question…Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

Sure, why not… since the left is OK with abortion. Right Mz. Hillary? MZ. Pellosi? Mr. {lollypops} Frank?

To the first point…….. imagine this…… ten years into the future…………..

“The days have been getting colder, since the nuclear blasts, I struggle to keep things as normal as possible for my children….

I remember when “Home Schooling” was a choice, but since the war came home, I have to keep mine close….

Today’s lesson, “Modern American History”…

“Listen up, kids”, since some of my neighbors who have “circled their wagons” with me, trust me in a few measures including teaching, “I have a story to be told”.

The wind blows, carrying the smell of the uncounted dead only a hundred miles away, but no one dares venture thier yet. Those who have, have not been seen again…

“In the year 2007, the country that was known as the United States of America was warned that nuclear weapons were being developed by it’s enemies…. but we were currently entreched in a war that was being subverted by local politicians, just for political power.”

“This gave them time for the enemies of the United States, both foreign and domestic, to develop and deploy nuclear weapons to be used by faciasist under the name of religion to deploy and detonate them…….”

“The wind blows again, I have to stop and drink from a tin cup that stings my toothless mouth….. the children start to cry as thier eyes start to bleed, …. the “cloud” is coming agian…..”

“Time to stop”, I tell the children, we must put up our shelters……… “Tomorrow, I will tell you again, the tail of Hillary Clinton…..”

Update: All right, here’s a real exit question to which I already know everyone’s answer: Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

Moe Berg, the third-string major-league catcher, who was a spy in WWII, was sent to find out how close the Nazis were to the bomb and if close to kill Heisenberg. He posed as a graduate student of physics, as I recall, and got up real close before deciding they weren’t nearly there yet.

According to what I read at FOX there was a statement about it being a ‘gas incident’. Maybe he just plain goofed up.

Sounds most likely to me. Or maybe the Iranians were tired of the Russians getting all of the attention with the spy poisoning a while back. /sarc

If the Mossad really did arrange this inside an Iranian facility, then they are even slicker than I thought, and that was pretty good to start. More likely, others (read Iranians) want the Jooooos to get the blame to cover their own incompetence.

I’d bet the application rate at the Iranian nuclear job fair just took a dip.

Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

Uh, yeah. Does the name Gerald Bull ring a bell? He was building a “supergun” tha would have been the largest artillery peice ever built, for Saddam Hussein. When he didn’t heed Israeli warnings to stop working on the gun for Saddam, he was killed.

I’d make the argument that sometimes killing scientists isn’t only moral in some circumstances, but that on occasions (and this would seem to include everyone above the janitorial staff in Iran’s nuclear weapons program), killing htem may be a moral imperative.

Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

Cut off the head and the body dies.

That would be a lot of heads. Listen to me! I talk like a terrorist.

I think that if there was a way to spoil the ingredients of Iran’s nuclear soup…..but there isn’t, is there?

Tollbooth question: Should warbloggers be fair game for assassination?

pedestrian on February 4, 2007 at 5:53 PM

As long as anti-warbloggers are fair game also.

After all, fair is fair.

Yes. Kill em all.

Should scientists be fair game for assassination?

No. Even if they were killed their work remains to be picked up by someone else. At best, killing the scientist only slows down the research – but not by much. Instead, go after those funding the research – leaders, governments, etc…