When Bush and Blair wanted to kill or capture one man - Osama in Afghanistan, Saddam in Iraq - they waded in with tanks and aircraft, and tens of thousands of civilians died.
When Putin wanted someone dead, he was disposed of in a way that almost seems to have been chosen specifically because nobody else would be at any risk at all.
I'm not condoning a murder and stifling of free speech, but frankly, which was the greater crime? To order the death of one individual who one saw as a traitor, or to order a military invasion which was certain to lead to the deaths of many innocents?
Who should be more mourned? A former secret agent who knew that he was risking his own life by what he said; or whole families, women children and all, who were just getting on with their lives when a 5,000lb bomb landed on them?
Are UK journalists overreacting because this happened in Britain or because the man who died was working as a journalist?
Are Russia's leaders just smarter than ours?
2006-11-24 07:10:41 · 11 answers · asked by gvih2g2 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I completely agree with the point of view that killing many when you only want one is sadistic.
However, I personally have pity for Litvinenko, even being Russian myself.
Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in October, the death of whom Litvinenko was investigating, had information that Putin didn't want her to have. Negative information about his actions. A man looking for justice also became a target for Putin, because this one also had information that would not be good for him if people knew. So he poisons him. I think that this is not betrayal of one's country. Putin kills those who do not approve of his methods. What kind of democracy is that?
2006-11-24 08:51:53 · answer #1 · answered by dodo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The war in Iraq was a show of our strength. Not to just get rid of a dictator. There is talk that Britain and America has lost the war, When you can travel thousand of miles and destroy a countries army in under a month, it makes the other trouble making countries( Iran and North Korea) take stock. What is happening now in Iraq will take a lot of years to overcome, Northern Ireland took 25 years to win.
2006-11-24 09:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by Gordon C 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're right. If nothing else, Putin and the Russians do know how to get the job done with regard to disposing of people. We could learn how to take people down without having to kill oh, I don't know, 600,000 people now in Iraq and who knows how many in Afghanistan.
2006-11-24 07:41:39 · answer #3 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your'e talking about killing one person instead of thousand Ok! America says it's ok to go around the world killing leaders of countries it doesn't agree with, putting in place dictators who kill thousands if not millions of people. Where does it end? You say that Putin wanted someone dead, suppose he wants a lot of people dead, does he copy Stalin next!
2006-11-26 07:53:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see the MSM now. Not to mention the ACLU, CAIR and the American Muslim Council.
I'm more for a Marine busting a cap in Osama than him getting shot by an umbrella pellet.
Covert killing would not do justice to such a public killer. IMHO.
2006-11-24 07:45:34 · answer #5 · answered by jihadidujour 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree Russia seems smart.
2006-11-24 09:32:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting point of view.
2006-11-24 07:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily smarter just sneakier.
2006-11-24 07:15:30 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks-- The last sentence in your question allows me to Answer == Yes , we have a government consisting of Treacherous , Thieving,Lying Buffoons.
2006-11-25 21:33:46 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mr puttin is a very dangerous man, if you are european, you better pray that he does not succeed with natural gas, where his predesessors failed, with brue force.
2006-11-24 12:40:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋