It makes no sense but it's what the Democrats will probably do since their entire focus is attacking Trump and nullifying the 2016 election and winning the 2020 election. After all instead of celebrating the killing of a fascist who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and who plotted to set off a bomb in a DC restaurant Democrats are attacking Trump.
Trump has a red line and he's shown that he will enforce it; unlike Obama. Similarly unlike Obama Trump's red line is about Americans.
Obama said that if the Syrian dictator used chemical weapons against Syrians that would cross a red line. When Assad did that Obama turned Syria over to Putin--one more example of how Putin owned Obama not Trump--and walked away. But more importantly why were American lives being put at risk over a Syrian civil war? It's true that it's in everyone's interest to keep chemical weapons taboo, as they were during WWII, but it's unclear why Obama wanted to risk only American lives and didn't succeed in getting other nations to be willing to take action.
Trump on the other hand is telling the world, not just Iran, that they can't kill Americans and get away with it.
That's an important message to send. But since it makes Trump look good Democrats will attack him.
The obvious way is to use their propaganda arm, the #FakeNews media, to say that every terrorist attack that occurs after Soleimani was killed is Trump's fault. The Democrats will probably pretend that those attacks would never have occurred if Trump hadn't taken steps to punish a man who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans.
They're already trying to cast doubt on the nature of the intelligence that showed that Soleimani was planning more attacks even though we know that that's what he's been doing for years.
The Democrats need to lie is partially driven by the fact that Soleimani's killings were funded, in significant part, by the $150 billion that Obama gave Iran as part of his "deal"; a deal which included no punishments or enforcement mechanisms.
We're just hearing about 3 Americans dying in an attack by al-Shabaab in Kenya. It will be interesting to see if the Democrats try and blame this on Trump.
If they do they're in for a big surprise. It was a well planned attack that took weeks to prepare and the al-Shabaab isn't one of Iran's proxies.
As we move on and there are attacks on Americans by Iranian proxies remember that those attacks would have occurred anyway in most cases.
What we won't see is the mass attacks that Soleimani was planning that don't get executed.
The reality is that even during Obama's appeasement of Iran Iranian proxies were waging a war of terror and targeting Americans.
If anything the killing of Soleimani will force the Iranian government to realize that they can no longer kill with impunity through their proxy forces; that they will be made to pay a price too.
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