alchymista:

mohandasgandhi:

therecipe:

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!

There is no evidence they are developing nuclear weapons.

Covertly assassinating scientists is unethical and 100% illegal. It’s also terrorism.

Coincidental development

I won’t pretend that I am fully read on this issue but, in my opinion, if we do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, we need to address the issue with the legislators who are giving the orders. We have the technology that they are supposedly attempting to acquire, and we say that we can be the only ones with it, or else?  Sure, killing the scientists could be “effective”, but they are simply doing what scientists do, researching, developing, and taking orders from the government. And likewise, they could say the same for us, and threaten our scientists. How would we as a nation respond to that? If they were to act on this and actually assassinate our scientists, we would certainly launch a counter attack. Thus, this dumb proposal has the potential start a vicious cycle that should be avoided.

Okay, now, because of this assassination of an Iranian scientist, and lovely comments like these, Iran is accusing us of ordering that scientist’s assassination. Honestly, I would be ashamed if our country was behind this. Like I previously stated, this is the entirely wrong way to go about this problem.