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Hey welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday October 28th 2019.

I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary with me as always senior editor

A. Greenwald hi A. Hi John associate editor Noah Rothman hi Noah hi John and in

Washington senior writer Christine Rosen hi Christine hi John okay so now that

we've gotten the highs over with we can say goodbye to Elbock Dottie the the

head of ISIS that austere religious scholar who repeatedly raped people in

his austerity and murdered thousands and emisorated millions and was all in

all one of the worst people of our time we can get to the whole question of why

the Washington Post web team saw fit to change the headline of its orbit from

master terrorist to austere religious scholar and what that says about what is

going on in the media today but before we do that maybe we should

dilate upon the more important issue which is the actual targeted killing of

of Elbock Dottie so by the way an interesting thing that this now suggests is

that we have now we have now made a total shift in American policy after the

failed assassination attempts on Fidel Castro in the early 1960s led to a

blanket policy that we were not to use assassination as a tool of American

foreign policy it is now evidently that is now Obama started this and Trump is

now sort of hardened it that we in fact do use targeted assassinations as part

in parcel of the way we conduct ourselves in the war on terror I really have

anything more serious to say about this except that like when I was growing up

as a teenager paying attention to foreign policy this was it was axiomatic

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