| 2-8-01 Journal Pretend the president has been assassinated by a foreign assassin. Would you blame the country from which the assassin came? Would you want the assassin and his homeland punished? If the president was assassinated by a foreign assassin, I wouldn�t blame the country from which the assassin came unless the assassin told our government that he/she was sent by the other government. Unless that happened I would hold the assassin personally responsible, not the government. If the assassin had confessed that his homeland�s government was involved and had put him/her up to it, then I would want the homeland punished. But if there was no involvement and no awareness of the government than only the offender should be reprimanded. And reprimanded by our country not by the other country. |