Do what American says, not what America does

Let’s imagine for a moment that Cuba’s regime were to decide that Luis Posada Carriles deserves the same fate as Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda operative executed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last week.

It wouldn’t be a stretch. Carriles, an anti-Castro Cuban nationalist and freebooting former CIA agent, engineered the bombing of Air Cubana Flight 455 in 1976, killing all 76 on board, according to declassified U.S. government documents. He was also implicated in a series of 1997 bombings of tourists inside Cuba.

At the moment, Carriles is a free man, residing in Miami and surrounded by fellow Cuban expatriates who regard him as a hero.

One suspects Washington, which has refused to hand him over to Cuba or Venezuela, would regard a drone strike killing Carriles (and, possibly, various civilians that are near him at any given moment) as an act of war.

Washington would probably take the same view of any nation that might decide to assassinate one of the various American security contractors and soldiers living here who have slain civilians wantonly or just for fun in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But America asserts its own right to carry out assassinations abroad as a matter of natural law.

Of course they do, there's no one to stop them.

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