This week, in Pakistan, Taliban assassins killed a health worker who was inoculating children against polio. Then a senior Taliban leader was 'droned'.
Polio is a horrible disease. It kills by slowly paralyzing the lungs. Sometimes it leaves a person alive but unable to walk or to use arms. My parents had me inoculated against polio at the soonest possible time. (I was under 10, I think.) A friend my age did not have such knowing parents and is spending her life bound to a wheelchair. I know that the vaccine was available and could have kept my friend from becoming sick.
I completely fail to understand why the Taliban wants children to get ill, and possibly die or be crippled for life. I KNOW that killing the innocent health care worker was against the beliefs of the Muslim religion.
So, would I authorize a drone strike against a person who was ordering his followers to kill the polio inoculation workers? Sometimes there are no easy answers.
So I ask you. Would YOU have killed Hitler prior to World War II?
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