Hacking very bad; assassination very cool

I love my country, but not enamored of its raging hypocrisy. Last January 3 we flew a drone over Baghdad Airport, dropping a bomb on a car, killing top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and nine other Iranians and Iraqis. That would be the equivalent of Iran assassinating the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and staff members from both the U.S. and an ally. The U.S. didn’t try to hide its treacherous act of war on Iran. We positively gloated how our mass murder was justified to make America safer. Five days later Iran retaliated by bombing U.S. facilities in Iraq, injuring 11 soldiers from concussion. The tepid Iranian response likely avoided all out war, something Iran wisely chose to avoid being obliterated.

But America is shocked, shocked, any country would hack into our government and corporate computer systems for nine months, shortly after we implemented our new assassination strategy. Whoever did it may simply have been seeking to uncover which top level foreign government official Is next on Uncle Sam’s hit list.

Many in government and the media are demanding a strong response against assumed hacker Russia without offering any proof Putin did the deed. Bombs won’t work as Russia has almost as many operational nukes as we do. Best they’ve come up with is more economic sanctions and….a reverse hack.

When it comes to conducting itself lawfully, Uncle Sam is fond of saying, ‘Do as I say…not as I do’.