Only allow debate to focus on whether we should be more aggressive with Pakistan, more assassinations and kidnappings, maybe some invading troops.
During her tenure in the Obama administration, Clinton, by her own frequent boastful admission, was the hawk in the Cabinet pressuring the president to be even more aggressive in his drone assassinations and murderous air wars, which have destabilized the region and created what the pope recently termed the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.
Nonetheless, American military officials say that they expect the Taliban to mount an aggressive and lethal campaign of assassination attempts during the traditional spring fighting season, and that the Taliban will increasingly use homemade bombs against American troops rather than directly engage them in firefights they know they are likely to lose.
WASHINGTON — A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week — assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of economic retaliation — suggest that Iranian leaders are responding frantically, and with increasing unpredictability, to the tightening of sanctions by the West.
American political and military officials who launch aggressive wars, allow torture, kidnapping, and abuse, run drone assassination programs, and the like do not have blood on their hands.
This is something that worries the Obama camp and it is hard to see how they counter it, which explains the hyper-aggressive way they reacted to news of the Bhutto assassination.
Dagan has been in charge of aggressive Israeli actions abroad in recent years, that have included assassinations in Lebanon, Syria and Dubai and an air attack on a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.
And some lawyers said his aggressive cross-examinations — attacking witnesses against his clients with disclosures about their pasts — bordered on character assassinations.
"Assassination," Smith said.
