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Read Replies (1) | Respond to Why did Obama authorize a drone strike against that American citizen and his 16 year old son? And why did the world shrug at that extra-judicial killing, which he did not get Congressional approval for? You know why? Because it is a President's prerogative to do those things, if he thinks they will prevent future attacks. The killing of Sulaimani is one of the biggest deals in a long while, a more effective strike than when they killed Osama Bin Ladin.Trump Derangement Syndrome Skyrockets Over Soleimani Remember “politics ends at the water’s edge”? In the Trump era, that patriotic phrase is not only dead, it’s decomposed. Soleimani , the terror mastermind who was, on analysis, even more dangerous to the United States and the world than bin Laden and al-Baghdadi, monumentally evil as they were.Neither bin Laden, nor al-Baghdadi ever had remotely the power at their disposals - even when the latter controlled his caliphate - Soleimani did as the military leader of by far the greatest state sponsor of terrorism . They were not even close to him who was head of Iran ’s Quds force and the second most powerful person in that country of eighty plus million, with all its attendant weaponry and technology and ties to China and Russia.Besides the thousands of Americans who either died or were maimed for life because of Soleimani, hundreds of thousands across the Middle East have met their fates at least in part through this man’s ministrations. Hezbollah , a fate he was replicating in Iraq . And then there’s Yemen and his Houthi and their simultaneous war against Saudi Arabia and their own people. And of course Israel where he kept the Jewish state in a crossfire between his clients Hamas , Islamic Jihad and, again Hezbollah (when Hezbollah was not busy exporting drugs into the United States).It’s worth remembering Soleimani was in charge of all these operations at once, a veritable superstar of terror. And let’s not forget Iran itself where only in the last few weeks Soleimani’s footprints were all over the deaths of thousands of peaceful anti-regime demonstrators. Nobody knows how many. And torture as well—something the Islamic Republic has made a specialty since 1979. Only the other day, they once again executed a man for homosexuality.liberal and progressive Democrats are all in a dither about the assassination of Soleimani. After all, Trump did it. It has to be wrong. Meanwhile the Democratic candidates are demonstrating uniform cowardice in the face of the action. Is there one of them you would want to have beside you in a foxhole? But a deeper cause of this increased derangement may stem from events that began September 11, 2012 - the Obama administration’s behavior in the aftermath of the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi , Libya. “My sources, meanwhile, say Suleymani [sic] was involved in an even more direct attack on the U.S.—the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.” here .)Senior Political Analyst Roger L. Simon’s new novel “The GOAT” is available on Amazon .
