#4
This country has engaged in a lot of killing over the years. Although many reflexively push unpleasantries aside, some folks remain keenly aware of the more dramatic episodes - those characterized by lots of noise and blood, and for which the stated reasons often turned out to be utterly bogus. Far fewer Americans know of more discrete behaviors - e.g., chopper pilots ferrying hitmen with death lists off into the backcountry of backwater countries - carried out in their name.

And when it comes to the Why Question? I'm not sure, but almost certainly nothing even remotely positive.

Lang, the fantasy fanatic in the center of this story, proudly holds a Trump Traitor Jan 6 Pardon.
Thanks, Republicans, you made this.
No, too late, train done and gone from that station,

Tatitlek

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says that the US can sustain its blockade against Iran "indefinitely".*

(* Ammo is not included in the secretary's miscalculation.)

"The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneath."
Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner
The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day