Who's killing Irans Nuke Scientists?

[piasabird]

Maybe we should give the bomber the Nobel Peace Prize!

 

[woolfe9999]

Oh, bull. When they went after targets like the USS Cole, it was called a terrorist attack.

I'm afraid your attempt at analogy sucks. You aren't even grasping for a proper, working definition of terrorism. If you were, you wouldn't equate the targetted assassination of nuclear scientists with terrorism. Has it occurred to you, for example, that the purpose of terrorism is to instill...terror, generally in a civilian population, so that the civilian population will put political pressure on its government to act in accordance with the aims of the terrorists. Now how exactly does killing Iranian nuclear scientists fall under the rubrick?

We in the US may sometimes employ overly broad definitions of terrorism. That, however, does not make your analogies remotely accurate.

- wolf

 

[halik]

Oh, bull. When they went after targets like the USS Cole, it was called a terrorist attack.

I thought most people filed that under that whole asymmetric warfare thing, at least according to wikipedia. Taking out nuclear scientists probably falls under the same category - it's not as if all physics students in Iran are now afraid for their lives.

The terror part comes from indiscriminate killing...

 

[Zorkorist]

There is no indiscriminate killing, when it comes to terrorism. Each attack is designed to weaken its opponent.

The 9-11 attacks attacked the center of American Corporate life; Manhatten, and the World Trade Towers. They also attacked the Pentagon and I think the 4th plane was trying to get to the Whitehouse.

That is not indiscriminate killing, that is targeted killing.

Attacks in Iraq have focused on Iraq's new police force.

Attacks in Africa have been against American Embassies or US War Ships.

In Israel, you might die at a Cafe, or a school, but everyone knows it is an attack against Israel.

They are all quite targeted.

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

I'm afraid your attempt at analogy sucks. You aren't even grasping for a proper, working definition of terrorism. If you were, you wouldn't equate the targetted assassination of nuclear scientists with terrorism. Has it occurred to you, for example, that the purpose of terrorism is to instill...terror, generally in a civilian population, so that the civilian population will put political pressure on its government to act in accordance with the aims of the terrorists. Now how exactly does killing Iranian nuclear scientists fall under the rubrick?

We in the US may sometimes employ overly broad definitions of terrorism. That, however, does not make your analogies remotely accurate.

- wolf

That one man is targeted for killing, can be as terrorful as a building full of people.

That's a good post, and I do kind of see the difference, and the objective you allude to which is to cripple a Government or a Society, without instilling Terror.

Do you understand that when Governments, or Religions, or other entities attack, even a single man, it can be terrifying?

-John

 

[Zorkorist]

Not really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud

heh...

What are the Hatfields and McCoys, but two families, or "tribes," or "Governments," or "Religions."

Could be Gangs, in today's parlance.

Sworn enemies didn't work out to well for them, either, eh?

Individuals, do not have "Sworn Enemies."

-John

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

http://213.251.145.96/cable/2009/05/09TELAVIV1098.html

In November 2008, Israeli crime boss Yaakov Alperon was
assassinated in broad daylight in a gruesome attack on the streets
of Tel Aviv, only about a mile away from the Embassy. According to
several media accounts, a motor scooter pulled up alongside
Alperon's car and the rider attached a sophisticated explosive
device with a remote detonator to the car door. The bomb killed
Alperon and his driver, and injured two innocent pedestrians. The
hit was the latest in a series of violent attacks and reprisals, and
indicated a widening crime war in Israel.

The exact same way these 2 scientists died. Guess they keep using a proven tactic.

 

[sonicdrummer20]

Africa and India could use Nuclear Power too,

Do you want to be party to the Government that didn't help other human beings?

-John

Well, seeing as how all the governments that help other countries get attacked what do you think? give a thug a gun and what do you expect?

 

[twinrider1]

Note to Iranian scientists:

Drive Corvettes.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Iran is not allowed to have Nuclear Reactors, for power, let alone Nuclear Weapons.

If you show them some respect, and allow them to have Nuclear Power, then maybe they aren't so mad.

It's just a human right, to have Nuclear Power.

-John

It's not a human right to have nuclear power at all. It's the most destructive force known to man; it isn't anybody's "right" to have it. A society must demonstrate a certain level of social stability and restraint before it can possess such a thing.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Good point. This won't work though and kinda sad taking out learned men. Tech is simple most libraries contain instructions for any curious chemist. Problem is procurement of elements.

Ya, you could do it!