America seemingly leads all other nation-states in making extrajudicial torture, as well as the targeting and the killing of people who America does not desire to see live, its distinct policy. For many Americans, they don’t seem to understand that the actions that we take outside of the law, outside of justice, and outside of diplomacy, are the very type of thing that will eventually result in the same types of actions, being exercised against Americans. After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Perhaps, people who have been classified as dangerous terrorists, such as Osama bin Laden, should be assassinated, in which, bin Laden’s crime against America, was being the leader and therefore the man who approved the terrorist attack upon America on September 11th, which was in its own way, surprisingly effective in the amount of peoples killed and infrastructure damaged. Indeed, most Americans would consider the killing of bin Laden on Pakistani ground, by Navy SEALs to be not only absolutely justified but necessary and heroic. Yet, even the killing of bin Laden came with the additional killing of apparently another four adults that were also slain in that house, which perhaps is then justified, as these people being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or guilt by association.
The thing about the targeted extrajudicial killings, assassinations, as well as torture that the United States carries out throughout the world, is that the decision to take this action isn’t vetted by any independent and transparent agency, or the United Nations, or a consortium of nations, but is done solely by the United States, and justified only in the minds of those that are the actuators of these actions. In other words, the United States kills Presidents, Dictators, Generals, terrorists, and supposed “bad actors” throughout the world and seemingly has no issue with innocent people who are killed along the way, and justifies this behavior as either payback for evil people doing bad things to Americans, or as simply America’s prerogative which they don’t have to justify to anybody.
The proximate reason why the United States can target and carry out extrajudicial killings is that it represents the most fearsome military force in the world and because of that, they can do what they desire to do, and apparently don’t care much about the rule of law, or the rules of engagement, or just about anything. The problem with this type of mindset is that when it is considered to be justified for America to assassinate certain people that they don’t desire to see live, or to torture them, or to kidnap them, or to harm their family members, then quite clearly turnabout is also fair play, which means that when another country, or terrorist, or some rogue agent of some sort, strikes back and does the same thing to an American – that to be consistent, America should simply just admit that what has occurred represents the prism of reality of the world as it really is. That signifies that those who insist that it is right to have a deck of 52 cards of supposed war criminals who are non-American and have been targeted to be killed, would itself be the fair basis for some other nation-state to create their own deck of 52 cards of supposed war criminals that are American, which reflects fairly that in a world in which the United States insists it need not respect a non-American, that those disrespected are entitled to feel the same sort of way.