If Tiananmen Square Happened Today, What Should We Do?

[David Floyd]

If the Tiananmen Square Massacre happened today - or a similar event - in any country, what should our response be? Should we go to war? Economic sanctions? Nothing?

My answer is that we should voluntarily boycott products from that country, and use the CIA or other means to assassinate those responsible, on the reasoning that defense of another is perfectly moral (provided, of course, that it's not a massive operation costing tons of taxpayer money). That would have been my likely answer to actual Tiananmen Square, too, by the way.

[Eli]

Why should you stick your nose into internal Chinese policies and actions? (re assasinations)

[Solly]

Have a few more television cameras there and 24-hour commentary, yeah!

[Solver]

Sanctions, clearly, and boycott.

And Israeli Mossad DID assasinate those responsible during a similar event...

[David Floyd]

Why should you stick your nose into internal Chinese policies and actions?

Why should the Chinese government be able to commit murder? Or, why should I stick my nose into the affairs between a murderer and a victim?

[Japher]

Depends if the place this occurs has oil or not...

[David Floyd]

Why would that matter?

[Eli]

Originally posted by Solver
Sanctions, clearly, and boycott.

And Israeli Mossad DID assasinate those responsible during a similar event...

The Munchen casualties were Israelis representing Israel, there is a big difference.

[Eli]

DF :

Did you support toppling Saddam's regime?

[David Floyd]

Nope, but I would have supported a simple operation to kill Saddam.

[Japher]

Why would that matter?

I don't know, but it seems to matter to everyone else.

[Gatekeeper]

The world community would likely play the "worried" role, enact a few sanctions, and that's it. Then Bush would step in and upset the apple cart, and his administration would be accused of making the world a more dangerous place.

Sorry, the cynic in me took over for a moment ...

Gatekeeper

[Eli]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Nope, but I would have supported a simple operation to kill Saddam.

But that wouldnt have been effective. His heirs are as bad as he is/was.

[DinoDoc]

Re: If Tiananmen Square Happened Today, What Should We Do?

Originally posted by David Floyd
and use the CIA or other means to assassinate those responsible, ... (provided, of course, that it's not a massive operation costing tons of taxpayer money).

Something doesn't compute here.

[Dr. Nick]

Floyd, I thought you said in the other thread that murder is always wrong.