With but one exception, my post "Decapitate" has been met with opprobrium. (I love it when I can use a new word -- even better when in conversation.) Anyway, yes -- strong rejection and disagreement. Not just illegal and amoral, but also reducing ourselves to the lowest denominator tactics of our enemies; triggering a round of retribution attacks; encouraging distribution of WMD to terrorist organizations, undermining legitimacy of international justice organizations; earning distrust of allies and enemies, alike ... and so on.
In the cool light of day, my critics are probably right. But they do not have counters to my arguments that any other response -- limited pinprick or change of regime campaign -- is worse. Frankly, I hope Congress denies the President's request to embark on a self-defeating course. I would rather stand down and plead impotency when it comes to sorting out or bringing sense to the chaos that is the Middle East today.
How satisfying it would be to decapitate the bastard ... but cooler heads should prevail.
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