America has made state-sanctioned targeted assassination and murder a tool of its foreign policy, certainly tolerating and sanctioning such atrocities on the part of their proxies.

I may need to open with a disclaimer about the potentially provocative title so there is no confusion and so no mistakes or misunderstandings occur.

A quick reading of the title, without much thought, could give rise to the belief that I am engaging in “whataboutism” to attempt to justify the murder of Charlie Kirk by perhaps framing it in the context of wider and more numerous political assassinations across the globe.

That is not the case.

There is no basis by which anybody could justify the cowardly assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was a peaceful activist, speaker, and writer.

Mr. Kirk was a true American patriot, and he did not deserve to be cruelly and coldly cut down by a coward’s bullet, particularly while his family watched him die before their eyes.

Mr. Kirk never hurt anybody, he never threatened anybody, and he never offered harm to anybody. He offered the truth, and the enemies of the truth murdered him for it.

Having clarified and established that point, I feel comfortable proceeding forward to get to the heart of the issue. The American system has normalized casual political violence abroad, and it has finally come home in a big way.

In recent years America has directly or indirectly (through proxies or client states) been responsible for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Hassan Nasrallah, Darya Dugina, Vladlen Tatarsky, Saleh al-Arouri, and Ismail Haniyeh, and looking back to 2011, the USA/NATO/West was instrumental in creating the circumstances that allowed their proxies and mercenaries to murder Muammar Gaddafi and one of his sons. The murder of Muammar Gaddafi was particularly disgusting in light of the reports he was tortured, abused, and sodomized with an object prior to being shot. It wasn’t enough for Washington’s proxies to murder the man; they had to humiliate him, abuse him, and violate him before taking his life. Gaddafi dared to challenge France’s currency control in West Africa in the former French colonies that are just now beginning to finally shake off French neo-colonial rule, so from the French perspective, Gaddafi had to die; that France was able to pocket Libya’s gold reserves in the aftermath of the NATO-orchestrated destruction of the Libyan state and society was simply icing on the cake, or as we in the USA might say, “gravy.”

My point about the violence the USA has sowed around the world is not to try to grandstand and claim, “Ah ha! The chickens are coming home to roost!” or any variation of........

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