trump just won the ultimate game of poker. he showed his hand they called and trump won.
Well played Mr. President well olayed..
I find it to be deeply disturbing that Americans (even Christians, no less) are conditioned by the state news media to celebrate any and every military action that we take in the world, even in a case like this where we just assassinated a revered general of a nation that we're not (yet, anyway) actually at war with. Here are a few of the reasons why this was a bad thing:
1.) It'll take 6-12 months to see what the outcome of this will be, so let's stow the party hats until we see how many Americans end up dead over this.
2.) By assassinating this guy we showed the world that we're just as murderous as the terrorists we claim to despise for being murderous - the only difference is that we use drones and cruise missiles instead of a machete. We could've captured Soleimani and tried him in court, and thereby showed the world that we believe in justice and due process - demonstrating that we're more civilized and just than our geopolitical adversaries. Instead we assassinated him in cold blood, just as our foes assassinated US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, and sacrificed any credibility for our claim of moral superiority.
3.) This assassination was an act of war. Under US Constitutional law, Congress is supposed to vote before we commit an act of war, but thanks to the 2002 authorization granting idiot warmonger liar President G. W. Bush the right to unleash warfare upon any target that's either directly or indirectly related in any conceivable way to the war against Saddam Hussein (who's now dead, and we now know that we were lied into the Iraq war on fake claims of WMDs that both parties and the fake news media dutifully parroted like credulous robots). So we're no longer acting as the Constitutional republic that the founding forefathers intended - now our Presidents are acting more like warmongering monarchs, freely taking military actions with no representational oversight by the People. But I will give credit where credit's due - prior to this Trump has resisted the pressure from the Deep State to wage war, and escalate wars, all around the world...and I'm grateful for that. Hillary Clinton would've slaughtered millions, which is why I'm glad she lost: minimizing the body count is the top priority in my political calculus.
4.) Soleimani was probably the most effective force against the Islamic State terrorist network, who we oppose when they target us but quietly support when they're furthering our insane and illegal efforts to kill someone we don't like, such as Assad. So this assassination was a major victory for ISIS. And that should make anyone's stomach turn.
5.) Anyone who thinks that it's impossible for something like this to lead to a world war is only exposing their own ignorance of history and reality. WWI started over the less significant assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The fragile veneer between peace and widespread mass murder is far, far thinner than most of us can comprehend. And the next world war will be the end of us, so anything that increases the chance of that happening by even 1%, is too high of a risk.
6.) I think it's sad and revolting that humanity hasn't evolved a single millimeter since the public executions and torture programs of the Dark Ages. Now, instead of going to the gallows to get a dark thrill from watching some "bad guy" get murdered by the state, we see the pictures on the tele - but it's the same dark, twisted thrill...one that we should be ashamed of rather than celebrating. That's probably the same dark thrill that will spell the end our species sooner or later, and for that reason perhaps we do deserve to go extinct. For all of our high talk of morality and justice and spirituality, events like this only reveal that we're the same bloodthirsty mindless savages that we've always been, and frankly, every other form of life on this planet would be better off without us.