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2014-12-20 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2014-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Don't know about you, but I'm tired of Pakistani lamentations over their chickens coming home to roost.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-20 06:48|| 2014-12-20 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 ditto g(r)om.

Article after article of hand wringing with nary a word of a solution.

It seems that they seem themselves as sophisticated elitists (think Harvard faculty) with not a clue, or desire, as to how or why to get ones hands dirty cleaning up the mess.

Posted by AlanC 2014-12-20 08:07|| 2014-12-20 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 First, consider how ineffective capital punishment would be in the case of those ~~militants~~ terrorists who resort to suicide bombing as their primary weapon of death and destruction. Indoctrinated to the point where the perpetrator does not expect to emerge from the attack alive, how can the death penalty be expected to deter others of his ilk?

Go after the masterminds and those who indoctrinate the bombers.

Besides, the death penalty will always remain a cruel and inhumane form of punishment, even if those sentenced to die are found guilty of having perpetrated the most barbaric of acts.

I see little difference in whether you shoot 150 schoolchildren or blow them up. I see they also have their anti-death penalty adherents in Pakistain. What the terrorists do is inhumane. However, the terrorist gives little thought to that notion. The death penalty prevents the terrorist from planning or committing future atrocities.

The Pakistainians need to go after the ideology and those who preach the ideology that sanctions and legitimizes these acts of terrorism. This needs to be done in other parts of the world as well.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-20 09:27|| 2014-12-20 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 how can the death penalty be expected to deter others of his ilk?

The point of the suicide kaboom is to kill, wound, and terrify a great many people, not the death of the jacket wallah himself. The judicial death penalty takes away all of that, leaving only death without forwarding the jihad. And make it a criminal's death followed by the standard disposal of the criminal's body, as the Israelis are now doing with those killed while committing attacks, and the appeal of the thing will attenuate.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-20 15:21|| 2014-12-20 15:21|| Front Page Top

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