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When foreign policy turns to decapitation strikes, rogue regimes call family targets fair game.

Tehran broadcasting animated hit pieces and bounties against an American president’s child is grotesque theater, but it exposes the inevitable cost of abandoning foundational norms.

For decades, American foreign policy strictly prohibited the targeted assassination of foreign leaders. The doctrine was not born out of sympathy for autocrats; it was anchored in cold, self-preserving pragmatism. Once a state legitimizes decapitation strikes as standard statecraft, the unwritten firewall collapses.

Opening Pandora’s box always looks decisive in the war room until the blowback begins.

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Attribution: MISS LIBERTY by Plassmann

Edward Elgar is an English composer of the late 19th and early 20th century. Best known with most people for his composition Pomp and Circumstance March, the middle section is the processional music for many high school and college graduations.

From Wikipedia:

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going public. In contrast with Elgar’s earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative and elegiac.

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Apparently, neither is it theirs, Darline.

Ignorant Republican Congress enables Trump’s deranged foreign policy

by David Horsey

Attribution: NATALIE HARP WHISPERING TO DONALD TRUMP by Steve Sack

[For 41 years, Steve Sack was the cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2013. Steve is a shining star in our profession.]