We killed Yamamoto

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20. I agree that the "language" of piracy would be better

than that of an endless, un-winnable war.

However. Military strikes that take out non-military targets are not acceptable from a moral viewpoint, and counter-productive from a practical one.

Sure, we have enemies. We have spent a great deal of time and treasure and effort acquiring them, starting--at least--in Iran in 1953. That was our newly-minted CIA at work, making us all safer...oh, wait....making the predecessor to British Petroleum's profits safer.

We would need a lot less effort and money spent to keep us safe if we quit acting like our needs were the only ones that count and dropped the meanest-SoB-in-the-valley attitude.