Santorum Is For Murder

An Iranian Nuclear Scientist gets murdered, and Santorum suggests this was a righteous kill, and that he'd take part in it. (No Agenda, episode 373)

Sorry, guys, you can't really be pro-life and just let this sort of stuff go. An Iranian nuclear scientist is not an enemy combatant, nor is any nuclear scientist who goes to Iran to work on nuclear stuff. Although we are happily committing acts of war against Iran and a dozen other countries we are not officially at war, nor are they at war with the U.S..

More importantly, nuclear technology is just another technology. Will you to kill electrical engineers in Iran? What about chemists? Are you completely nuts, Santorum? This isn't self-defense, defense of a nation, or anything. Eventually, every nation will have nuclear power and weapons if they want them. Indeed, at some point individuals may be able to make and or acquire nuclear weapons. So, sane long term policy isn't banning; certainly isn't blowing up nuclear scientists. Keep doing that, and you'll have nuclear work being done by people who don't have formal degrees- and if they are brought up by the criminal class, they'll be less likely to be worried if one of their products takes out New York.

But to bring it back up, Santorum- Thou Shalt Not Kill. Yeah, I know it is really thou shalt not murder, but this is murder. The nuclear scientist was just doing his job, working for his country, and it is not clear, despite the propaganda, that he was actually working on weaponry. Nor would this be 'self-defense' if he were. It is simply murder with a flimsy, hysterical excuse, that some day this guy's work might be used to blow up something. They can't even get a warhead here. This excuse bears the same hallmarks of capriciousness and narcissism that exist in the excuses used to abort the unborn. Such a vague and potential threat is really no match to the real dangers posed to Americans everyday by politicians and government workers, yet mysteriously, Santorum doesn't sound like TJIC. Much easier to murder someone you don't know rather than defend against the thieves you know and love.