> Other countries, notably Israel and the United States, pursue targeted killings, but in a strict counterterrorism context. So all those attempts at eliminati

> Other countries, notably Israel and the United States, pursue targeted killings, but in a strict counterterrorism context. So all those attempts at eliminating Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi were in a "strict counterterrorism context"? > No other major power employs murder as systematically and ruthlessly as Russia does against those seen as betraying its interests abroad. Killings outside Russia were even given legal sanction by the nation’s Parliament in 2006 Maybe if they did those killings with drones or have a "kill list" like the US president keeps, it will be OK in the eyes of the NYT. Or if the person "betraying its interests abroad" is another country's head, an outright military invasion, like against Iraq and Libya, would be OK with the NYT. The article even went as far as bringing up murders during the Soviet era. The NYT should next do another piece on CIA murders at about the same time.