A Strange Gloom and Doom about Trump Taking Out Soleimani From Both the Right and Left

Even if you agree with Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter that America should get out of the Middle East, it's still hard to understand their immediate and very negative reactions to Trump's fatal air strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

Some of the doom and gloom may come from paying too much attention to retroactive justifications and not enough to antecedent provocations. Hearing that Soleimani was killed pre-emptively because he was plotting some unspecified mayhem is bound to elicit an "oh, please" from anyone who remembers Saddam Hussein and his dangerous but ultimately nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. The resulting disastrous war is just one of many cases demonstrating that American Intelligence Community tries to influence events in much the same way most organizations do: it decides what it wants based on reasons it's unlikely to divulge and then gets the rest of us to agree by pushing information unlikely to be true.

So, it's understandable that, when Army general Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, turned up on television after Soleimani was killed, many assumed that it meant yet another blood-soaked, never-ending, refugee-breeding misadventure. Even if Milley hadn't said a word, just seeing him standing behind that podium in his uniform might have been enough for anyone over forty with a functioning memory to assume we were in for another round of what Steve Sailor has pointedly termed "invade the world, invite the world."

Unfortunately, Gen. Milley's remarks were so unreassuring that they could have been a parody of a Pentagon spokesman reciting a bogus casus belli:

I'll stand by the intelligence I saw that was compelling. [Soleimani's planned attack] was imminent, and it was very very clear in scale and scope. Did it exactly say who, what, when, where?

Just like we are their “Great Satan”, they are our “Great Satan”. Politicians need to be able to “save” us constantly from some great evil . . . and they always have to raise our taxes and restrict our freedoms to do it.

Looks like the great Iranian monster was not as fierce and difficult to confront as they billed it to be. Because of that, it is going to make it more difficult to extract their ill gotten gain from us.

Choke on it, ya thieving b@$+@rd5!!! MAGA!!!!!

Soleimani killed and would have continued to kill many people in the Mideast. He killed Americans but his prime target were Sunni Muslims who he viewed as an imminent threat to Shi’ites and Iran. His formative military experience was in the Iran/Iraq war. He forever viewed aggressive Sunni Muslims as his enemy and a threat to Iran. His best work was cooperating with the Russians fighting the Saudi financed Sunni ISIS.

Yet he killed Americans and continued to plot against Americans. His death makes American immediately safer. It also removes the greatest internal threat to the mullah regime in Iran. Many in Iran viewed him as a “dictator in waiting”. He might have been. As a successful, charismatic, fervent general, he was immensely popular with the masses in Iran. If he were elected President , he had the stature and power to change the Iranian constitution and remove the mullahs from secular power. That of course assumes that at his core he was an Iranian patriot, wishing to free his people from medieval misery and not a subservient lackey of the mullahs. We’ll never know. That is the only regret regarding his not entirely unexpected, sudden demise.

What should happen is that, every time an American soldier or regular citizen is killed by a terrorist, the blame should be put on Nancy Pelosi and democrats and their media subsidiaries. Where it not for them, perhaps none of those murders by terrorists would have happened. In fact, blame should go to democrats and the liberal media for Sulemaini having killed so many American soldiers and the thousands of others overseas.

Put blame where it rightfully belongs.

Saddam Hussein and his dangerous but ultimately nonexistent weapons of mass destruction

Oh he had em!~ We knew what he had and how much he had, because WE sold them to him. That's why we "couldn't find them", cause it had our name and fingerprints all over them.

Don't be naive! Everyone uses Mad Moe's murder muppets for their own ends. Iran declared war on US during Carter. Iraq declared war on Iran during Reagan. Reagan gets his revenge on Iran, Sadam gets power, we didn't have to "go to war" with Iran.

The MilIndustry gets paid off with CIA drug money. It was a sordid thing.

Reagan did a lot of good. He did a lot of bad also.

RE: I don’t trust the CIA or the FBI in any way.

1. This particular intelligence was SPOT ON. They KNEW where Soleimani was.

2. If we are to distrust the CIA and the FBI then we might as well believe all conspiracy theorists out there. Among them:

A) Soleimani is not really dead. Like Elvis, he’s hiding somewhere ( I can tell you the INCREDIBLE explanations I have been given ).

B) The Iranians shot the Ukrainian Airline because CIA agents were found to be among its passengers

C) It was an American missile that shot the Ukranian Airline down.

The logical point to take if we cannot trust ANYTHING the CIA or FBI tells us is to just dismantle them to save taxpayer money.

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