Now we've done it - Trump killed Iran's top military leader:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-dangerous-world-iran-killing-102124110.html
I suppose this harks back to our cowardly murder of Admiral Yamamoto during WWII:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vengeance
... and/or the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden.
Strange how we've gone from real warfare to targeted assassinations in so short a time. I guess we should thank our Israeli "buddies" for persuading us to make that shift.
BTW - If Israel had been the ones to kill the general, no one in the MSM would have complained. They never do.
ReplyDeleteSo all the hand wringing appears to be more anti-Trump than anti-murder as an instrument of preventive war.
Here are more examples of US sponsored murders and attempts at murder:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/04/us-political-assassinations-history-iran-suleimani