AFCENT failed to provide additional details about the missions, those targeted, or that euphemism, "neutralization," which was once a favored term of the CIA's often muddled and sometimes murderous Phoenix Program that targeted the civilian "infrastructure" of America's enemies during the Vietnam War.
Far from being deterred, Assad was strengthened: A punitive response to an egregious war crime became a sort of rehabilitation program where the murderous war criminal was released and told to behave.
"At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction: that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program.
Perhaps that's why Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, saw fit to include a program note stating that "Ferdinand Marcos led a brutal and murderous regime, and his wife was in many way its leader".
American programs to keep Russian nuclear ingredients from falling into murderous hands -- one of the subjects high on the agenda in President Bush's meetings in Moscow this weekend -- were hatched soon after the Soviet Union disintegrated a decade ago.
This one-act précis — likely to rub Graham purists the wrong way — anchors Program A, with the blond, hieratic Katherine Crocket dancing the role of the murderous queen.
Today's Wall looms in such ventures as the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, both involving not only the potential use of monstrous weapons by murderous regimes, but nuclear extortionist leverage which these regimes are already using to bring free nations to heel.
Berserk murderous blood rage.
Comfortable armchairs are murderous traps.
