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I used the term loosely. The US created the situation which led to both their deaths.
by rorykoehler 8y ago
I used the term loosely. The US created the situation which led to both their deaths.
- nradov 8y agoPrecise language matters. You could loosely state that any war in which the losing head of state ended up dead was an "assassination", but that's not what the word actually means.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoI see "assassination" as "killing a particular person as a political move" - Iraq and Libya were very long-winding paths to get a particular person killed. But I agree it is somewhat imprecise in that it was not the CIA that ordered the angry mob on Qaddafi, he wrote those circumstances himself.