"I believe that murder by individuals, states, countries and institutions on whatever grounds is equally reprehensible and degenerate".

So if a country is suffering a revolution perpetrated by a minority, the Government shouldn't put down that revolution on behalf of the majority of its citizens? - it should allow the mob to have its way even though that may reduce the country to anarchy/civil war/ what have you?

"What's happening in the Middle East is that people are fighting for the right to determine their own future".

So much lack of understanding compressed into one small sentence - congratulations.

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