Assassination and Libertarianism

Subject: Assassination and Libertarianism Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:54 pm

The targeted assassination of guilty people is ethically superior to war. The assassination-by-drone policy of the Trump regime is ethically bad for the same reason, and therefore morally wrong, and libertarians are right to condemn it.
Over at the Washington Examiner – a great online site that promotes conservative, libertarian, and ‘fusionist’ views inside the Beltway – Philip Klein has an article on what at first glance looks like an inconsistency in libertarian thought.(1)
On the one hand, Klein writes, prominent libertarians of the past (including presidential candidates Ron Paul and Harry Browne) long advocated assassination as a better alternative to war.
On the other hand, “Libertarians were among the most vocal critics of President Trump’s decision to order the killing of Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani” by drone assassination this month. Klein is clearly referring to, not constitutional objections about the lack of congressional authorization, but the normative or ethics-based “substantive criticism of whether it’s a good idea to take out a prominent foreign leader” the way the Trump administration did.

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