Iranian General killed by US Drone.

It seems historically, the USA pick and choose who is good and who is bad. If you go back far enough, Bin Laden was trained by the CIA, and in the early 80's they tried to cosy up to Saddam.
They have been completely amoral all along. It's about protecting their resources as they see it. They hire them and fire them. Gaddafi, The Shah, Saddam. Hamas were encouraged and funded to counter Arafat.
All the big players in world history have behaved the same, it's naive to think this is new, but we should all be able to say it for what it is.
 
Who is the one doing the inciting? innocent people and troops across the middle east will pay for it,maybe innocent people here,why are you only worried about people who work for trump?

Well Soleimaini decided to do the inciting by having a proxy war with America and the UK, which is why he's now dead. I don't blame Trump for killing him but he should have been killed a long time ago when Soleimaini was doing the most damage and the case for it was a lot more clear cut.

What I'm against is the deliberate targeting of civilians in any kind of warfare but especially just because they stayed at the wrong hotel.
 
Well Soleimaini decided to do the inciting by having a proxy war with America and the UK, which is why he's now dead. I don't blame Trump for killing him but he should have been killed a long time ago when Soleimaini was doing the most damage and the case for it was a lot more clear cut.

What I'm against is the deliberate targeting of civilians in any kind of warfare but especially just because they stayed at the wrong hotel.

I wholeheartedly agree however I cannot accept a next step being a US assault on Iranian cultural sites. That area has some of the most amazing relics in the world and when the Taliban and ISIS started destroying places like Palmyra it was called out as a war crime. If Trump does the same it is the same.
 
Well Soleimaini decided to do the inciting by having a proxy war with America and the UK, which is why he's now dead. I don't blame Trump for killing him but he should have been killed a long time ago when Soleimaini was doing the most damage and the case for it was a lot more clear cut.

What I'm against is the deliberate targeting of civilians in any kind of warfare but especially just because they stayed at the wrong hotel.
Did Iran organize the overthrow of a US president in 1953? Did Iran invade Canada the US's neighbour in 1991 and again in 2003? Did Iran encourage Canada to invade the US in 1980? Did Iran destroy the US economy by applying sanctions?
 
Well Soleimaini decided to do the inciting by having a proxy war with America and the UK, which is why he's now dead. I don't blame Trump for killing him but he should have been killed a long time ago when Soleimaini was doing the most damage and the case for it was a lot more clear cut.

What I'm against is the deliberate targeting of civilians in any kind of warfare but especially just because they stayed at the wrong hotel.
There was a time and a place for removing this guy from power, and this wasn't it. Spectacular miscalculation by the Trump administration.

Everything in the timing of this assassination (as Israel have called it) screams deflection from all matters impeachment. A deliberate attempt by Trump to control the news cycle.

The miscalculation comes in not understanding the potential backlash. The fact that there were many times more people at this guys funeral than at Trumps inauguration speaks volumes. There is now a serious state sanctioned threat threat to US servicemen and civilians (and British for that matter) serving and working in the Middle East as a result of the killing. There has also been a credible threat to Trump properties worldwide, and if Trump had believed for a second that this could have had the potential to impact on profit margins at any of his properties due to fear of being in a Trump property in case of reprisals, there is no way Trump would have sanctioned this hit.
 
Did Iran organize the overthrow of a US president in 1953? Did Iran invade Canada the US's neighbour in 1991 and again in 2003? Did Iran encourage Canada to invade the US in 1980? Did Iran destroy the US economy by applying sanctions?

No but a lot of them historical things that you reference aren't really relevant.

This stems from the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003, which I was against but in my view still doesn't legitimise Iran's actions to effectively go to war with the Coalition there and not expect reprisals.
 
There was a time and a place for removing this guy from power, and this wasn't it. Spectacular miscalculation by the Trump administration.

Everything in the timing of this assassination (as Israel have called it) screams deflection from all matters impeachment. A deliberate attempt by Trump to control the news cycle.

The miscalculation comes in not understanding the potential backlash. The fact that there were many times more people at this guys funeral than at Trumps inauguration speaks volumes. There is now a serious state sanctioned threat threat to US servicemen and civilians (and British for that matter) serving and working in the Middle East as a result of the killing. There has also been a credible threat to Trump properties worldwide, and if Trump had believed for a second that this could have had the potential to impact on profit margins at any of his properties due to fear of being in a Trump property in case of reprisals, there is no way Trump would have sanctioned this hit.

You might be right that now wasn't the right time for it. A lot of people have their doubts (while still seeing good reasoning for it), me included but we will have to see how it plays out.
 

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