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Originally posted by Stratos:
[QB]Well, Israel is subject to more pressure from militant groups than any other Western country. Perhaps they see this as the only way.
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I'm inclined to think they're just pragmatic [img]smile.gif[/img]
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I doubt you can scare people into submission like this. Most likely they will find a way to get back at you. At most, assassination can only be a part of a greater strategy, not a just convenient way to get rid of people you don't like. If you assassinate someone in a part of the world, you're entering a political game in that said of the world, and you can't just leave like nothing ever happened. People there will remember what you've done for years to follow.
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Like Iraq is now you mean? Clearly the 'present method' of regime change falls into all the same pitfalls.
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What human suffering? The suffering of your own military personnel? Of your own civilian population? The military and civilians of whatever country whose leader you just killed? Will the assassination of a person alleviate human suffering?
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Not alleviate, but avoid potential suffering. I'm just looking at it as an alternative to the mess in Iraq - both allied troops and Iraqi civilians need not have died if an alternative approach could have been found.