Perhaps the U.S. will get lucky, and Iran’s rigid rulers will quietly accept a stinging loss administered by its most hated foe. It seems unlikely
The question at the heart of the attack on Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani isn’t one of legality or justification.
There is no evidence the current president or any of his advisers put much more thought into the likely reverberations from targeting Soleimani than Bush did when going after Saddam. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the West’s most important defence pact, received no advance notice, despite the obvious danger an aroused Iran represents for a continent well within its missile range .
The president insisted the strike would lead to greater security, but sent thousands more troops to join the 80,000 American soldiers already in the Middle East. He got into a slanging match with the Iraqi government after it voted to demand U.S. troops go home, and threatened dozens more strikes on Iran, including cultural targets, until informed he’d be committing a war crime.
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