On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:44 -0800, Philip Hart wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Matthew Klahn wrote: > > > I don't believe that Israel's policy of assassinating members of > > organizations that promote violence against Israelis has had this > > effect. > > Ex-policy. > > Seems to me that Lincoln's assassination was fairly successful in the long > term - at least I tend to believe the counter-reconstruction would have > pleased Booth. > The counter-revolution was fairly effectively fought until Grant's term second term, by which time Lincoln was unlikely to be in office. And if he were, I doubt he'd have had much more luck fighting it than Grant did. --