Posted on 01/06/2020 5:06:37 PM PST by Boomer
Four days ago, the United States military executed a flawless precision strike that killed the worst remaining terrorist on Earth, Qasem Soleimani. The next day, President Donald J. Trump delivered a statement on the successful operation.
“As President, my highest and most solemn duty is the defense of our nation and its citizens,” he said. “Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him.”
“Under my leadership, America’s policy is unambiguous: To terrorists who harm or intend to harm any American, we will find you. We will eliminate you.”
Led by Soleimani, the ruthless Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilitated horrific acts of terrorism. Soleimani himself contributed to plots as far-flung as New Delhi and London—and even the United States. In 2011, he organized an attempted assassination of the Saudi ambassador to America in Washington, D.C.
During the Iraq War, Soleimani’s camps trained killers that were directly responsible for the deaths of 603 American service members. Thousands more were wounded.
In the past few weeks alone, attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq included rocket strikes that killed an American and badly injured four U.S. servicemen, as well as a violent assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. All were carried out at Soleimani’s direction.
Americans are safer today because the world’s worst terrorist is dead. The Iranian people are safer, too: Soleimani recently led the brutal repression of protestors in his own country. In the end, more than 1,000 innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their government in Tehran. Soleimani’s disrespect for life knew no borders or limits.
These grave facts aren’t in dispute. Every American who believes in the dignity of human life should rejoice at our military’s tremendous success last week. Partisan politics sometimes gets in the way of uniting around good news, however—certain career politicians are too worried about who will get the credit.
Real experts across the political spectrum are setting the record straight. Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic candidate for Vice President, said “President Trump’s order to take out Qasem Soleimani was morally, constitutionally and strategically correct. It deserves more bipartisan support than the begrudging or negative reactions it has received thus far from my fellow Democrats.”
President Obama’s former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also shot down claims from some Democrats that the Soleimani operation could be unlawful. Based on the rationale presented by our military, “the President, under his constitutional authority as Commander in Chief, had ample domestic legal authority to take him out without an additional congressional authorization,” Johnson said.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained President Trump’s position in a series of television interviews yesterday. “The Iranian leadership needs to understand that attacking Americans is not cost-free,” he said. “Terrorism will not benefit them.”
In other words, the expectations are clear. There will be no appeasement. There will be no blank checks from this Administration. America has zero interest in war. But Iran must end the one it started—now.
Tucker Carlson isn’t pleased.
"I have a very particular set of skills..."
Tucker has some interesting points tonight. I agree with him on a few of them.
It’s kind of like “You’re Fired”, except with missiles!
Pelosi can be impeached. It takes one charge approved by a majority of House members and sent to the Senate for trial. She deserves it more than Trump ever will. She will not want to talk about her own vulnerability!!!
No he wasn’t.
God bless this great man!
Best President Ever (BPE)
I like Carlson most of the time, but he’s got a streak of paranoia about rich people in general (as opposed to specific rich people) and his isolationism is slightly over the healthy limit, imho.
Tonight he dropped his usual razor-edge rationality and insinuated like a lefty, saying that a lot of people who don’t know much about Iran suddenly have a lot of opinions about Iran...and then he went immediately to a clip of Lindsey Graham.
Now, I’m not a big fan of LG but the transition from comment to clip suggested that Graham is one of those people who don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to Iran. And Graham isn’t one of those.
Tucker is consistent. He does not believe we should be there and what he said last night is par for the course. I respect him.
There is a time to be consistent, and a time to not be consistent.
For example, after December 7, 1941, our prior non-aggression against Japan would have been absurd to consistently maintain following the events of that day.
Similarly, after the attack on December 31, 2019 on our embassy in Baghdad by forces under the direction, control, weaponizing, and funding of the late terrorist bigshot, Qasem Scummyman, and his fellow Islamic terrorist thugs, it would be wrong to just cut and run, or cringe and hide. That sounds more like Obama "Phony-Red-Line" foreign policy, or like following the wishes of our Islamic terrorist enemies, as well as the wishes of the demoncrap party "stars", such as Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Liz Warren, etc.
It is a good and noble goal to do everything we reasonably can to avoid war, and get out of these stinkholes in the Middle East, and President Trump has begun many steps to further that noble goal, doing much more already than the past five presidents combined in pursuit of that end result. But when the reality is that these putrid Muslim terrorists attacked us like that, and killed Americans like they did, the exactly wrong response would be to just do nothing, or just cut and run. President Trump did the right thing, and today, all our enemies all over the world know that it is not the smartest idea to attack an American embassy, killing Americans who serve there.
Tucker is consistent in that regard with his views he held when he worked at CNN, and the views he held when he worked at MSNBC, (and what the people who work there at those two networks still consistently promote), but after the 12/31/19 attack, that is the wrong approach to take for this specific situation, and it is wrong to continue to consistently stick to that worthless, impotent, ineffective, "do-nothing" response that Tucker still espouses, even after that dastardly attack on America.
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