State Sanctioned Murder

Today it has been reviled that the Iranian government had a plan that would have killed a Saudi diplomat.

First before discussing this issue further I must make an assumption that many Americans take for granted-that the American government is telling the truth. 

With the truth of this plan assumed true I can discuss this topic as a moral issue. Not the morality of if killing is right or wrong, that is an issue for people to decided for themselves not states. The morality I speak of is the the perceived innocence that American speaks from when it condemns such plans. American officials sit feigning outrage, and maybe they truly are outraged that anyone, especially Iran of all places would dare to attempt to pull a state sanctioned assassination on American soil. Never mind the fact that America has attempted, pulled off, and failed at worst plots. 

One of the most embarrassing plots by the CIA to over throw Fidel Castro involved using flares fired from subs in the middle of the night to convince the Cubans that Jesus was returning to earth. True, this does not equate to trying to kill someone on American soil but are we naive to believe that America has not plotted against other nations on their soil and others. And although I hesitate to bring up the case of Osama Bin Laden that was a situation in which the American Government assassinated a person in a nation we were not at war with. What gives America the moral right to kill people in non combative foreign nations?

It may well be that the case of Osama does not move you, I would not expect it, but the case of the American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki that was killed by drone attack in a nation America is not at war with. Where does this country get off claiming moral indignation at Iran for taking a play out of the American playbook? Why should this nation not assume that others would do as it has done. Was not the War in Iraq simply a pretext to the assassination of Saddam Hussein. How many leaders democratically elected in Africa and South America has the CIA killed. What makes it morally okay for America to kill foreign heads of state and dignitaries but a moral and unforgivable outrage to even attempt to kill a dignitary of a nation that is friendly to the United States? On what moral ground does the US stand? Might makes right?

Shame on the United States for having a straight face when calling out the Iranians. There is no doubt that what Iran did was wrong, but the pot is calling the kettle black on this one. For the pedestal that America stands on as it points it's finger down at Iran is actually a mountain of corpses killed at the long reaching arms of the CIA. 

Do no play victim America, because you are simply a victimizer who got a taste of its own medicine.