Two Minutes of Dems Calling for Political Violence.

Both Democrats and Republicans routinely call for political violence. That’s what sanctions are about. When the US put crippling sanctions on Iraq, it was an attempt to incentivize a coup.

People tend to follow the logic even if they are not intended to. If it would have been a good thing for the Iraqis to have assassinated Saddam Hussein, the lesson being taught is that there is nothing inherently wrong with political assassinations; they might be sometimes wrong or conditionally wrong, but only that.

Bear in mind also that schoolkids have been taught for a long time now that American Indians were justified in brutal atrocities against innocents because they themselves suffered from brutal atrocities. Teach kids that for 13 to 17 years, reinforce it through the media, and then try to convince the adult you have produced that your actions can still be evil even if you are sure your cause is just. This is why so many university students support Hamas: They just take what they were taught about the Comanche and the pioneers and change the names.

Who could have guessed that a country that has been busily sowing the wind might someday reap the whirlwind?

The Catechism of Catholic Church teaches that committing a sin to prevent a greater evil is not morally acceptable and that one should never do evil, even if the intention is to bring about a good outcome.