Iran Situation

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(01-03-2020, 02:59 PM)Au165 Wrote: One country's terrorist organization is another country's military. I am sure in some country's our military would be considered a terrorist group as we have launched strikes that have killed all sorts of civilians that the local government didn't agree with and we weren't at war with. In fact, Iran does label our entire military a terrorist group. The other issue here is he is acting on government issued orders, hence him being a government official. Blowing him up does nothing as someone else will step in because the government isn't just going to stop. Again, this is far different then Osama Bin Laden.

If someone blew up one of our generals in charge of middle eastern operations because we were planning to issue drone strikes on people from their country we disagreed with, we would call that an act of war. 

(01-03-2020, 03:11 PM)hollodero Wrote: I guess no one disputes that, or that his death is not a loss for the human race.

It's the implications that make this maybe a bit trickier than just reducing it to this guy's deeds and how he deserved what he had coming.

Would you be willing to go to war over him?

(01-03-2020, 03:12 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: While I get this being the justification for the assassination, it's important to keep in mind that the way we classified the IRGC as a terrorist organization would be similar to another country classifying USSOCOM (if the commander reported directly to POTUS) as a terrorist organization. Then you have to consider how we would see an assassination of the commander of, say JSOC. That is what we just did. Classifying them as a terrorist organization doesn't change the fact that he was a foreign official of another country's official military, a military we are not currently engaged in open conflict with.

What other Nations consider us should have 0 bearing on what we classify other organizations. The United States has deemed IRGC a terrorist organization. You want to take issue with the classification of them as a terrorist organization feel free, but that doesn't change the fact that when we authorized the attack they were a terrorist organization; therefore, not a whole different situation than the elimination of bin Laden.