“It’s not only a crime. It’s stupid.” Talleyrand often is cited for this appraisal of assassination, but a different official under Napoleon, Joseph Fouche, Minister of Police, is the real source & might have viewed Sen Lindsey Graham as both criminal & stupid. For suggesting... 1/5

that act be carried out against Putin. The advice from over 200 years ago is sound. 1: under the 4th Geneva Convention it is a crime by international standards. In the USA it’s homicide & thus a crime in all 50 States. 2: it’s stupid, for a couple of reasons. It creates pretexts... 2/5

or actual reasons for reprisals. For one nation to take down the head of State of another nation is an act of war. Also, the person taken out could become a martyr in his or her country’s eyes. And then there’s the possibility they’ll do the same to our people. The CIA carried out...3/5

such “operations” from the 1950s to 1970s. And the USA was hated, in part, because of those “ops.” I’m not defending dictator/killer Putin, but we are a nation of laws. Sen Graham advocates a remedy that all Nations should view as wrong. Besides we don’t want to make a martyr...4/5

out of a war criminal like Putin. I’m Mark Small. I’m pro-choice, pro environment, pro-civil rts, anti-gun & anti-trump. I’m GOP candidate for Indiana House District 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 5/5