tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post115911873043622405..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: The Limits of EmpireUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-1159126708775389692006-09-24T14:38:00.000-05:002006-09-24T14:38:00.000-05:00I think your points are fair ... let me put this o...I think your points are fair ... let me put this on the table as a proposal. I won't defend it right now, but from a game theory perspective, I suspect it will work:<BR/><BR/>1. The US should adopt a policy of targeted assassination.<BR/><BR/>2. Democratically elected leaders(even when elected in a sham election arranged by an elite that controls government, such as Ahmadinejad's election arranged by the Ayatollahs) are not subject to assassination under this policy, though such elite may be subject to assassination.<BR/><BR/>3. Leaders who exercise control over a geographic area and are not elected (the Ayatollahs, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, the Mullahs, etc.) are eligible for assassination.<BR/><BR/>4. The US will prioritize assassination targets that are a danger to foreign countries, support terror, impede democratization, impose fascism on domestic populations, engage in genocide or engage in any form of ethinic cleansing.<BR/><BR/>5. Successors to an assassinated leader will assume the same priority on the list as their predecessor absent clear and verifiable actions (not words) that establish a lower priority.<BR/><BR/>6. The US will make its assassination guidelines (but not a list of specific targets) public and publish its case against each person killed after their assassination.<BR/><BR/>I think if we established this kind of policy we would see more people like Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi reduce their involvement in anti-liberal terror programs. The policy would be targeted very narrowly against those people who cause so much harm to humanity, and would provide strong incentives for those specific people to realign their behavior towards a more liberal course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com