President Donald Trump said about the airstrike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a week ago: “I got him before he got me.” Iran had plotted to assassinate Trump, he explained. “Well, I got him first.” Few people outside of Iran will mourn Khamenei, who devoted himself to a decades-long campaign to kill Americans, Israelis and his own dissidents. But Trump’s comment indicates how targeted killing—assassination, in blunt terms—has become normalized in modern warfare. Gangland terms

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