Right now let's concentrate on using the system to win. This country has in fact used assassination since long before any of us were here, but if you examine the long-term record, the ultimate success of assassination is overrated. Assassinating Diem in South Vietnam began the political "death spiral" of that country that no amount of US…
Right now let's concentrate on using the system to win. This country has in fact used assassination since long before any of us were here, but if you examine the long-term record, the ultimate success of assassination is overrated. Assassinating Diem in South Vietnam began the political "death spiral" of that country that no amount of US intervention could repair and restore. Assassinating Sitting Bull in 1890 did not lead to any sort of ultimate quiescence of Native Americans, who all still remember and do not forgive.
Right now let's concentrate on using the system to win. This country has in fact used assassination since long before any of us were here, but if you examine the long-term record, the ultimate success of assassination is overrated. Assassinating Diem in South Vietnam began the political "death spiral" of that country that no amount of US intervention could repair and restore. Assassinating Sitting Bull in 1890 did not lead to any sort of ultimate quiescence of Native Americans, who all still remember and do not forgive.