Rick Santorum voices support for assassination of nuclear scientists.
“…I’m hopeful that some of the things we’re seeing with respect to their [Iran] nuclear program that the U.S. is involved in. Which is, on occasion, scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that’s a wonderful thing. …And if people say ‘well you can’t just go our and assassinate people.,’ well…tell that to Awlaki. We’ve done it for an American citizen.”
Oh man. There is so much wrong with Santorum. So much. At least he’s being honest that he sees the U.S. above the law. What an Christian he is!Now presidential candidates can openly advocate terrorism?
Who wants a theocratic Iran to have nukes? (besides Iranian theocrats?)
What are you allowed to do to keep them from having said nukes?There is no evidence they are developing nuclear weapons.
Covertly assassinating scientists is unethical and 100% illegal. It’s also terrorism.
This is pretty basic political maneuvering and the biggest problem is that it almost always works because most people either don’t know or don’t care how their political system actually functions. The President was saddled with a lose-lose situation where he either seriously harmed American defense policy (political suicide), or passed offensive legislation knowing that it would cost him political capital. To all of you here lamenting that you ever voted for this ‘corporate shill’, congratulations: you are the result the Republicans were hoping for. They get the law they want, they get the weakened Presidential candidate they want. And many of you just don’t seem to see that. You don’t have to like your country’s two-party system, but it pays to be able to understand it so that you can recognize when it’s being used like this.
Much longer comment at the link, but the overall point Mauve_Cubedweller suggests: Republicans played a very clever political game, and made it look like Obama was at fault for the most controversial passages in a very large defense authorization bill, to the point that any softening of the passages didn’t matter, because, ultimately, he signed the bill. Do you buy this explanation?
(via shortformblog)
