tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926331686958472031.post1977272629132930173..comments2023-05-10T11:14:50.324-04:00Comments on PolitiConn: They Have Done The DeedTerry Cowgillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879361872421002161noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926331686958472031.post-9936710985072524372011-05-04T15:59:07.453-04:002011-05-04T15:59:07.453-04:00You win this one, Terry. I think I was still think...You win this one, Terry. I think I was still thinking about a comment on my blog this week in which my friend from Tampa called the Seals' wet work " Murder. "<br /><br />Assassination is a good word, the right word, for what happened. Murder it wasn't. This was no crime. It was the right thing to do, given the context. That being war.Terrence McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13165558884865771318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926331686958472031.post-45304164559588830722011-05-04T10:23:36.070-04:002011-05-04T10:23:36.070-04:00The definition of assassinate is "to kill sud...The definition of assassinate is "to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously." It might not be a perfect word but I think it mostly fits.Terry Cowgillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09879361872421002161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926331686958472031.post-53208669512504462922011-05-02T17:09:28.342-04:002011-05-02T17:09:28.342-04:00I'm going to write this off the top of my head...I'm going to write this off the top of my head. I was going to Google " Assassination " to get the specifics on the word. I do know, from memory, that's it's derived from a middle eastern word and it has something to do with killers who were stoned on hashish. Was this an " assassination? " If we're at war with these guys, I think it's the wrong word. Navy Seals were involved yesterday in a battle in the long and maybe never ending war on terrorism. Bin Laden was killed in that battle, a casualty of war.<br /><br />JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X. They were assassinated. Osama? I'm not so sure.Terrence McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13165558884865771318noreply@blogger.com