“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this particular action. It is more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden or even the death of [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi,” he said in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine.
Petraeus said President Trump had effectively reestablished the idea any Iranian attack against American targets would be met with considerable force.
Democrats still delusional about Trump even after Qassem Soleimani: Goodwin
.....as defense specialist Michael Doran wrote in The New York Times, the fear of war “ignores the fact that Mr. Soleimani has been waging war on America and its allies for years.”
The latest example was the attack on our embassy in Baghdad, carried out by groups allied with Iran. That is the sort of dirty work Soleimani specialized in — getting Arab Muslim proxies to fight and die for Iran’s goal of regional dominance.
....Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the killing of Soleimani “reckless” and said “our priority must be to avoid another costly war.”
Their approach makes a virtue of weakness and invites further attacks. Of course we should try to avoid war, but passivity in the face of evil has never yielded a durable peace.....
Their approach makes a virtue of weakness and invites further attacks. Of course we should try to avoid war, but passivity in the face of evil has never yielded a durable peace.....
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In that arena’s view, passivity, hesitation always is seen as weakness—which they will always seek to exploit to the fullest advantage of Islam. Allowing that is suicidal.
This was a MOAB. Which Mr. Trump DROPPED early on, if memory serves, the only president to drop one.