There are two ways to deal with tyrants and dictators;?

Question

The first is to force them to give up their power - be it via military force or diplomatic pressure.

This will enable others to take control in the place of the dictator.

The second is to deal with the tyrant or dictator directly - as in, don't get anyone involved other than who is nessecary.

Thus; Assassination.

Why is it - and this is rhetorical - that people tend to favour the former as opposed to the latter?

And yes, there is a right answer.

Answer 1

Decode this lyrics "Knowing me knowing you"

Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

Luke 21.30-36

Exodus 20.1-7

Leviticus 26.13

Luke 9.25,55-56,60

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

Leviticus 4.13,22

John 8.44

Exodus 23.24,32

Matt 21.17-21

Luke 16.13

Matt 23.27

Matt 22.32

John 7.19

Luke 24.44-45

What do you think?

Answer 2

Morally speaking, the idea of killing someone is wrong. Tyrants and Dictators are mostly disliked for doing just that. Sure, you may be poor or opressed but if your buddy or child/spouse is dead then you are not willing to continue being under their rule if you can help it.  To kill one is to not just stooping to their level but is to go against your own morals of right an wrong.  To displace a Tyrant without comprimising your own standards is victory on a grand scale.  To show that you are right for removing them and that they were wrong because you didn't need their methods to do it but your own more righteous ways.

Answer 3

The problem with assassination attempts is that it can go for a whole lot of possibilities.

Look at the CIA assassination attempt on Qusay Hussein.  It may not have pleased CIA heads that he lived, but also offered the CIA a benefit.  Qusay was not favored by his father after he was found crippled.  Had Qusay lived and not be crippled, his father Saddam would've turned over the tyrant kingdom of Iraq to him, enabling Qusay to cut off women's bellies, mutilate kids, and even murder more on a larger scale than his father.  This will enable Bush to wage wars against Saddam and hang him, after his father failed in Desert Storm and left.

Look at the KGB files on Yuri Andropov's attempt on the assassination of Mikhail Gorbachev and President Yeltsin in Red Square.  It was called the Communist Coup.  It failed, partly because of Yeltsin's move to stay in the square in front of the people and encourage them for a new Russia.  This did not allow the agents an escape plan thus Yuri Andropov's plan of reviving the old Communist ways failed.  This did benefit Russia in the short run with Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika, but collapsed the entire Iron Curtain in 1991.  This will ensure that Russian superiority over her old republics be anemic until Putin's election as President.

Not all assassination attempts will benefit the parent country of the agent on assignment.  Assassination attempts are very tricky, and leads to too many possibilities.  Once you've assassinated someone, assume the worst.  You could always elect someone puppet to a nation, or find someone more terrible than the previous tyrant.

The reason why diplomacy, UN sanctions, and forcing a country to submit before military force or international investigations is enacted makes it more cleaner in spite of its long delays.  People grease the wheels, but it does not produce the evident results because each and every nation are entirely different due to their aspects of culture, religion, viewpoints, and strong or weak policies towards other nations.

You may apply diplomatic pressure but it takes a while before a despot, like Muhammed Ahmadinejad submits to the UN sanctions by giving up the dream of a nuclear reactor (since the US fears he could be building nukes; no doubt he's in bed with the Russians).  You can try to force Russia to give up Tbilisi and Georgia's old territories, but it takes more than just words.  In this, NATO may allow Georgia to become a member in which the Russians ARE NOT friendly to this perspective.  Destroying Georgia overnight, raping and pillaging their women, killing their men and boys is probably the best Russia's planning for their old Soviet republic before repopulating it with ethnic Russians.

So, diplomacy can work but it won't always benefit the one parent nation that seeks the result.  Assassination attempts are VERY MESSY and do not produce the evident results.  It can go very extreme on your end or on the worse end.

Answer 4

There is of course a third way - to support them, overlooking their thuggery as long as they are friendly thugs.

For example, President Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, head of one of the most corrupt, ethnocentric, oppressive and undemocratic states in the world. Despite all this, he is a 'good friend ' to Secretary Condoleezza Rice - at least as long as he keeps the oil coming,