Connecting dots
Elizabeth Warren was on Jake Tapper's show today and she expressed the view that Trump may have had the Iranian general killed because he wanted to distract people from his impeachment. Jake seemed aghast that she would voice this opinion, but come on - who is *not* thinking this?
We know these things ...
- Both Bush and Obama declined to target Soleimani because the benefits didn't outweigh the possible fallout.
- Trump and his minions have not offered up any compelling evidence that Soleimani needed to be killed right now.
- Trump is a professional liar and his administration has always followed his lead in putting forth misleading information to the public for their own ends.
- Trump has shown that he is willing, even eager, to misuse the powers of his office to try to get himself re-elected (Ukraine).
You connect the dots.
posted by crystal | 12:12 PM
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People try to justify Trump's actions by saying that Soleimeni was a horrible person. But that begs the question. Whether he was horrible or not, are we now doing foreign policy by assassination? If we are, how is that different from terrorists?
I agree. And there are a lot of terrible leaders in the world - Kim Jong Un, Putin, MBS - but Trump doesn't want to kill them, he wants to cozy up to them. I was just reading an article in the NYT about that mentioned how the Evangelicals in the Trump administration, like Pompeo, Pence, Graham, see Iran as something they have to get rid of in order to save Israel, so then the Rapture can eventually take place there ... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/opinion/trump-iran.html
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