I don't read L. Neil Smith very often. But this writing of his comes closer to the truth that anybody else I have read.
In the Nuremberg trials after WW2, German commanders who wantonly killed Jews and others under orders, were not excused for their crimes of murder and torture. A person has the duty to NOT arbitrarily obey the orders of his superiors, when the superiors are harming people for nothing.
Trump did good to get rid of Suliemani.
This Week In Stupid (01/23/20)Yet it appears that I have underestimated the blind, irrational, bigoted, furious, hatred out there for Donald J. Trump and have had barrels of raw animal excrement figuratively dumped on my head simply because I voted for the man in 2016, have frequently celebrated him in my writings since then, and plan to vote for him again in 2020.
I had my reasons, which I have not exactly been silent about. Donald Trump is not perfect, and he is no libertarian, but he has taken us closer to the kind of society we libertarians have always claimed to desire than any of the generally weak, stupid, cowardly, short-sighted, self-contradictory Libertarian Party candidates ever have in my 56 years as a libertarian.
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Recently, the flapdoodle has been all about the President’s highly sanitary disposal of Iran’s chief terrorist Qassim Suliemani. This is a character who, over the past two decades, has been responsible for (and proud of) the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousand’s of other people, including many of his own counrtymen. A technical question arises: was Suliemani a serial killer, or a mass-murderer? It is the law—libertarian law—that nobody has a right to initiate force against another human being for any reason.
