He has always wanted to kill people. The Middle East is his 5th avenue of death with impunity.

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7. He expresses this and similar ideations (and has done so) for most of his public life.

He has a history of personal physical violence since he was a very young child (IIRC, it began when he was about four when he was throwing things at a 2-year old toddler in a play pen in his/her yard or playing in the yard). His parents never had/allowed the children to have pets (which for that era wasn't all that unusual, especially in large urban areas like NYC, Chicago, etc.), but it was pretty common when parents recognized that they had at least one child that had a proclivity to target small animals and other kids). From what I remember reading, his mother was concerned to the point of being repulsed by this tendency she recognized in him.