PJM Political 5/8/10: From Times Square to South Park to Texas
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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at The Big Week That Was:
- Ed Driscoll interviews Jennifer Rubin from Commentary magazine on would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, and President Obama’s on-again/off-again love of media diversity.
- Steve talks with James Lileks on the now-infamous Kinsley-esque gaffe regarding Shahzad by MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer.
- PJTV.com’s Allen Barton interviews Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily, and Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute on Goldman Sachs’ Week from Hell.
- From PJTV’s Poliwood, Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd on the death threats against TV’s South Park, and Comedy Central’s feckless and hypocritical response.
- Plus Roger Simon, the Ultimate Blue State California Guy, attends his first NASCAR race, where he interviews Texas Gov. Rick Perry about his presidential aspirations.
- Produced by Ed Driscoll.
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Ethical Murder
. . . On a much smaller scale is the ethical issue of killing one man or a group of men who you are reasonably certain are plotting to decimate cities and commit mass murder. Today we have the ability to accomplish such precision acts of war without risking the lives of the guys with boots on the ground or of the pilots in the sky.
Some are calling the use of very successful predator drones in the Afghani war as unethical, others call it a great advancement in the conduct of modern warfare. Pinpointing a high value target certainly seems to beat the destruction of large swaths of real estate tenanted by unknown numbers of innocent non-combatants.
And, yes, there will be drone mistakes, casualties that occur in the fog of war described with the sanitized term ”collateral damage” which happens no matter the military tactics employed but do those mistakes constitute unethical warfare?
A related ethical question has arisen in conjunction with Islamic cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1685)