"Already Was A Reprisal" Many Suffered On Both Sides

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"Opposing forces" by Shelob from available special characters.

So, you have not commented upon the recent assassination of the Iranian general.

No, I haven't.

You have nothing to say about whether he may have been plotting against America?

No, I don't.

You have not commented upon whether it was wise.

I suppose you want me to?

Yes.

Wisdom has nothing to do with 'our current President.' As to this particular action--if there aren't any reprisals, or the reprisals turn out to be less than he would have caused anyway, then it was cagey. I don't know.

Anything else?

Murder is never right. Of course nations do it all the time in their own interests.

Would you approve of the reprisals?

No. But really, this already WAS a reprisal. He'd been killing and maiming Americans for what, decades? He never had to target America. He's lucky he didn't wind up at Guantanamo Bay back when there was (or was more) waterboarding. His family should be grateful the Israelis didn't get him. THEY would've made everyone that cared about him afraid. There would have been no possibility of reprisals because no one would have figured out what happened. He got off easy, dying quickly, unlike the soldiers he sent into battle. Some of them took days to die. Some of the wounded on both sides were never the same. Some of those that suffered at his hands were Iranian.

The real tragedy is that no one involved in this anywhere is mature enough and wise enough to say "I'm out, go away with your bad self and let's just be enemies peaceably."

Thank you. Your oft-quoted philosophy is that 'an eye for an eye means we've all gone blind.'