>It would be hard to imagine the Government getting away with bombing downtown San Francisco without any consequences. I didn't say "downtown San Francisco", I

>It would be hard to imagine the Government getting away with bombing downtown San Francisco without any consequences. I didn't say "downtown San Francisco", I said "your home." How would you prove that blew up your home? If you can't prove it, then they got away with it. My point is that when we open up the definition of "can" in this headline to mean "things the government can do and get away with", then it becomes meaningless if it's not bounded by the legality of those things. There are a boundless number of things, including assassinations, framings, etc etc, that the government "can" do and get away with. So the only definition of "can" worth discussing, since the headline is intentionally vague about what "can" means, is whether or not it is legal to do the things described.