Pat Robertson has called for the United States to asassinate Venezuela’s democratically (but left leaning! so he’s a dictator!) elected president Hugo Chavez. From USA Today:
‘We have the ability to take him (Chavez) out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,’ Robertson said.
Wow, Pat. What ever happened to ‘turn the other cheek’? Would you really have the United States throw away decades of diplomacy by asassinating a democratically elected leader? We sort of promised we wouldn’t do that any more when we signed up with the Organization of American States. I thought we learned our lesson after we installed Pinochet in Chile. You should read your history.
To be fair, Pat’s not the only religious leader who should be ashamed of himself. The Pope’s lawyers are currently seeking immunity for the Pope in a case where he’s accused of helping to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas.
I’ll throw in something for the Muslims too, just to be even handed. Easy example: Iran still upholds Khomeini’s fatwa calling for the death of Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. Their excuse? In a nutshell, only the issuer of the fatwa can withdraw it, and hey, Khomeini’s dead. What can they do?
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