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You presume wrong. I mean the killing of Iranian civilians such as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The US arms Israel who conducts such extrajudicial assassinations. By y
by aprilthird2021 3y ago
You presume wrong. I mean the killing of Iranian civilians such as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
The US arms Israel who conducts such extrajudicial assassinations.
By your logic, this makes all American military personnel and proxy civilians fair targets for Iran
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoSo, you mean like the Iranian attempt to assassinate John Bolton? (I mean, they didn't succeed, but does that make a real moral difference?)
- enterprise_cog 3y ago[dead]
- aprilthird2021 3y agoWasn't this a retaliation to the killings Israel and the US did of it's people? Also, I am keeping military leaders aside. I think most would agree that they sign up for a level of targeting civilians should be exempt from.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoFirst, Bolton was a civilian. (And if you're going to say that "he's an involved civilian", well, so is the nuclear scientist. Iran doesn't have a nuclear program just to produce reactors.) Second, of course it's a retaliation. But the killings Israel and the US did were also retaliations. And what they were retaliating for were also retaliations. If you condemn assassination-as-retaliation on the US and Israeli side, condemn it on Iran's side as well. (And, note that if this is ever going to end, some people who are guilty of atrocities are going to have to be unpunished. That feels morally wrong. But both sides punishing the authors of atrocities leads to the current situation, which also doesn't feel very moral.)