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Fair game to assassinate senators?

This is the braindead logic emerging on X right now. Graham's health rumors spark conspiracy theorizing, and someone responds with: if Iran killed him, that's justified because he supported assassinating Iran's head of state and traveled abroad. Let's untangle this: no, poisoning a US Senator is not "fair game." International law doesn't work on personal vendetta logic. But the framing itself is revealing. We've normalized the idea that assassination of foreign leaders is just foreign policy, so when someone applies that same logic back to American officials, suddenly people get uncomfortable. The hypocrisy isn't subtle. Graham's actual problem isn't that he's in danger from Iran. It's that he's openly declared his loyalty is to Israel first, then brags about supporting coups and assassinations, then acts shocked when the world doesn't see this as neutral statecraft. You can't export violence and then claim immunity from consequence.
Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol
I’m sorry, but Lindsey Graham dying out of the blue like this doesn’t make any sense at all. We have him on camera yesterday looking perfectly healthy. None of this is making any sense…
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