and especially given the well known propensity of US officialdom, especially US presidents, to relentless, automatic lies and mendacity.
Killing Resolves Nothing - by David Swanson
http://canada.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/85670
"As we put bin Laden behind us, can we put the degradation of our civil liberties and our representative government, and our honesty, accountability and the rule of law behind us? Can we recover the basic moral decency that we used to at the very least pretend and aspire to?
Imagine the propaganda that the US could make of video footage of a foreign country where the primitive brutes are dancing in the streets to celebrate the murder of a tribal enemy. [and his children or grandchildren too]
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind but the blind people think that they still see. The world looks to them like a Hollywood adventure movie. In these stories, killing someone generally causes a happy ending. That misconception is responsible for piles and piles of corpses to which more will now be added."