A "Compassionate War" is an Immoral War
Oct 24, 2001

      MARINA DEL REY, CA--"A 'compassionate war' against a terrorist state responsible for the murder of over 3,000 innocent Americans is an obscene inversion of morality," said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.

      "The policy of dispersing food over enemy terrain would once have been condemned as treasonous," said Dr. Brook. "What American politician, in 1941, would have approved parachuting food and medicine to the people of Hitler's Germany? Asking our airmen in Afghanistan to risk their lives to provide such aid and comfort to the enemy adds injury to insult.

      "No war can be won," added Dr. Brook, "unless the nation waging it is ruthlessly committed to the rightness and success of its cause. America must make its rational self-interest the paramount consideration. We must stop putting mercy above justice, charity above self-defense, the lives of America's enemies above our own--a rational morality demands it. We must fight to win, as quickly as possible, and by any means necessary. Only a war fought on these terms will strike the requisite fear into the hearts of the terrorists and wipe out the menace."
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