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Headline: Why the west cannot turn a blind eye to a murder in Canada

Sub-headline: Ignoring the possible role of foreign governments in assassinations would pose major risks to national security and social stability

https://www.ft.com/content/b42ce1d7-ed04-4e91-8465-fc618d01c557

In the Political/Moral Universe of Gideon Rachman ‘The West’ is a place holder for the American Hegemon, and its imperial self-delusions- yet the record of the utter incompetence of this hegemon is instructive: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and this latest debacle in Ukraine! The watershed of America’s ‘War On Terror’ was catastrophic:

This paragraph, my or may not place my thought, about Rachman’s attachment to The West/American Hegemon, in doubt?

But this argument misses a vital point. The US killed dangerous enemies, such as Osama bin Laden, when they were in countries where it was regarded as futile to try and use the local justice system. But the Americans do not kill alleged terrorists when they are on the territory of allied democracies. Even the Israelis are not believed to have assassinated anybody in the west since a killing in Paris more than 30 years ago

I have put in bold font the final sentence of the above paragraph. Rachman has missed and or avoided these revelatory reports? The West does not include Iran? Since Iran is beyond the pale, in that ‘rules based order’ ?

Part 1: Leading Iran Nuclear Scientist Killed

https://iranprimer.usip.org/index.php/blog/2020/nov/30/part-1-leading-iran-nuclear-scientist-killed

December 1, 2020

Part 2: Iran on Nuclear Scientist’s Assassination

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/dec/01/part-3-world-nuclear-scientist%E2%80%99s-assassination

December 15, 2020

Part 3: World on Nuclear Scientist’s Assassination

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/dec/01/part-3-world-nuclear-scientist%E2%80%99s-assassination

December 7, 2020

Part 4: Iran Media on Scientist’s Assassination

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/dec/01/part-4-iran-media-scientists-assassination

December 1, 2020

Part 5: Assassinations of Iran Nuclear Scientists

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/dec/02/part-5-assassinations-iran-nuclear-scientists

December 2, 2020

Part 6: Timeline and Fallout from a Scientist’s Assassination

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/dec/02/part-6-timeline-and-fallout-scientist%E2%80%99s-assassination

December 9, 2020

This final sentence of Rachman’s demonstrates his deep attachment to the passé mythology, of that hallowed ‘order’.

The “rules-based order” may turn out to have some meaning, after all.

Final thoughts: Rachman’s tepid critique of Narendra Modi, reminds this Reader of Isaiah Berlin’s test of a person, a male, was weather he was ‘clubbable’… this is the political territory that fellow Oxbridger Rachman- the thin ice that he skates over. In the process the Reader is not reminded of the Pogram’s committed against Muslims in India , nor the punishment/shaming of Muslim children in Indian schools!

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