Will someone—perhaps a Middle East expert on this form—explain why despite the mighty power of the Israeli forces, she did not assassinate the late Yasser Arafat—the country's nemesis for several years? Maybe the seasoned Israeli leaders reasoned that if they did, Arafat might be martyred. Indeed, Arafat said as much at one time. The funeral procession on Iranian television following the assassination of the infamous Soleimani was huge. Has this administration inadvertently by its action made an "infamous general more famous" in death? Peace is far better than war! To paraphrase the late Sir Winston Churchill "it is so easy to start a war, but difficult to end one." I will suggest that the senior Senator from South Carolina should borrow a leaf from this late statesman.
Ike Udogu
--If we are to follow the pure logic of an eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth and a burn for a burn, then Iran would be demanding the head of Qasem Soleimani's equivalent, someone like General Mark A. Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
But to follow the chain-of-command logic, it would seem that the buck stops with the Donald himself.
And the fallout, if Iran did that?
BTW, I remember the day that Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. I was ill in bed when I got a phone call from a radical Muslim. "Salam Alaikum", he said, "Your friend has been shot!"
I thought that he was talking about one Ishaq Muhammad who he used to talk about as "Your friend", so I was drowning in sorrow as I asked, "Is he alive?"
"Turn on your CNN motherfkker!" he replied. And so, I did.
My second reaction when I saw that it was Yitzhak Rabin, a prayer, hoping that it was nota Palestinian who did it – because at the time I thought that it was surely Palestinian that must have done it and that the fallout would be simple: No Palestine state. But an Iranian precision drone wipes out USA's Chairman of the joint chiefs of Staff? Trump's twittering reaction would be bordering on the genocidal - but for now, this is the real situation as I see it:
https://www.facebook.com/cornelius.hamelberg/posts/3226427697372388
On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:52:01 UTC+1, Kenneth Harrow wrote:i've been thinking along the same lines as cornelius. nothing suleimani did was without the accord, the full accord, of ayatollah khomani. you have to ask cornelius's questions: what if trump decided to assassinate the ayatollah. that would be a unilaterial decision to enter into war with iran.for what?
it is an insane idea, that only an arrogant and uneducated idiot would entertain.yet he did something that is very close to that.ken
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd : Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Iran's Foreign Minister--"Third is they attacked a citizen and a senior official of Iran. We're responsible under international law for protection of our citizens. This was an act of aggression, an armed attack, albeit a cowardly armed attack, against an Iranian official in foreign territory. It amounts to war, and we will respond according to our own timing and choice."
Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Iran's Foreign Minister
https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1212946202280579073
As all United States Americans know, Donald Trump their brave commander-in-chief did his level best to avoid doing any military service and this is probably one of the reasons why early in his presidency, Trump the Besserwisser who claims that he knows " more than everybody" was already boasting that he knows better than any of his generals: "I know more about ISIS than the generals do" and later in his career Trump felt no remorse about taunting John McCain record as an American war hero
Would Trump dare to assassinate the Military Commander-in-Chief of Russia whilst that chief was on a state visit in Iraq? Would Trump have the testicular fortitude to assassinate China's military Chief? Would he not tremble before challenging North Korea in like manner?
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