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Marine murdered in Iraq

I’ll try and minimize commentary on today’s grim news. Just two points. 1) They did in an active-duty Marine. Bad idea. 2) Anyone who calls this an “execution” deserves a a lesson in semantics. “Executions” have a mandate granted by a legitimate governing authority: either The State, or an Office of that State. As far as I’m concerned it’s murder. I’ll call it an execution if we find out that it was ordered by a Grand Ayatollah in Iran. But we know that’s not going to happen now, won’t it? Won’t it?

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