Assassinations and War Crimes 2020
There’s too much going on and it’s hard to focus on anything right now. But I thought that video by David Ignatius about Iran was pretty measured and informative.
You will note that he uses the word “assassination” which has stupidly become a bone of contention and has some Democrats and pundits running around chasing their tales trying to distance themselves from the obvious.
I cannot help but recall the shameless Republicans, led by Trump, rending their garments over Democrats alleged refusal to say the words “radical Islamic terrorism.”
Now they are rending their garments over Democrats using the proper word to describe the planned, targeted killing of a high level political and military leader of another nation. Of course it is an assassination. And part of the reason that previous administrations have not carried out such a thing is because it’s deadly provocative not to mention illegal (not that that would necessarily have stopped them) to do that.
They did it. Now they have to deal with the consequences and one of them is the fact that they have now used the force of the United States government to assassinate an adversary on foreign soil and they are proudly taking credit for it. There’s no going back from that.
And why they are being so delicate about the language is kind of laughable when you have the president of the United States openly threatening to commit war crimes on a massive scale?
From the looks of it, nobody with any influence on the right is stepping up. I assume they love it.
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