Letter to the Editor: Murder is still murder when committed by a drone

We are confronted by a US presidential second-term election cycle. We all must contend too with various interests. Do we have in play a version of ‘operation boot’? The 1952 US/UK regime-change operation in Iran. And do people regionally also view the late, recently murdered Major General Qasem Soleimani as an Iranian Che Quevara? Would Iran’s supreme Ayatollah be viewed as an Iranian Fidel Castro? How annoying for a rightist US administration: a Cuba in the Middle East. How much more death and devastation will flow out of our fossil-fuel dependency and the military powers of the main players, the chief one being the US?

Did it escape US notice that people killed at an airport by a drone-launched missile is an act of murder, remote or not, and murder (and multiple murders on the day) remains illegal and a crime? The US administration bases itself on law, doesn’t it? And there are no warnings. Likewise, the convoy attacked.