Soleimani was asking for it!
Jan 7, 2020 10:27:57 #
hdjimv
Loc: South Dakota
A contrarian take from Tom Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer winner who knows the region’s hatreds as well as any journalist on the planet.
“One day they may name a street after President Trump in Tehran,” he said in his Times column — this from a liberal commentator who generally supported Barack Obama and is a fierce Trump critic.
The reason? “Because Trump just ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle East.”
Rather than the evil genius portrayed by much of the press, he says, Soleimani is an i***t who squandered the lifting of sanctions that was part of the 2015 deals and helped plunge his country into poverty and protests that left some critics jailed or k**led.
Soleimani did this by fighting proxy wars against Americans and in such places as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel, says Friedman, freaking out U.S. allies and forcing the Trump administration to take action. The use of pro-Iranian m*****as to storm the American embassy in Baghdad was one provocation too far.
It is too soon to gauge the magnitude of the repercussions. The 2020 Democrats are all campaigning against Trump’s decision. But as the Friedman column makes clear, Soleimani bears much of the blame for his own downfall.
“One day they may name a street after President Trump in Tehran,” he said in his Times column — this from a liberal commentator who generally supported Barack Obama and is a fierce Trump critic.
The reason? “Because Trump just ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle East.”
Rather than the evil genius portrayed by much of the press, he says, Soleimani is an i***t who squandered the lifting of sanctions that was part of the 2015 deals and helped plunge his country into poverty and protests that left some critics jailed or k**led.
Soleimani did this by fighting proxy wars against Americans and in such places as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel, says Friedman, freaking out U.S. allies and forcing the Trump administration to take action. The use of pro-Iranian m*****as to storm the American embassy in Baghdad was one provocation too far.
It is too soon to gauge the magnitude of the repercussions. The 2020 Democrats are all campaigning against Trump’s decision. But as the Friedman column makes clear, Soleimani bears much of the blame for his own downfall.
Jan 7, 2020 10:52:43 #
LOL I saw that article he wrote !
The real Iranian people are happy as punch because Soleimani ordered Torture and k*****g of the regular people !
The real Iranian people are happy as punch because Soleimani ordered Torture and k*****g of the regular people !
Jan 7, 2020 12:25:25 #
hdjimv
Loc: South Dakota
4430 wrote:
LOL I saw that article he wrote !
The real Iranian people are happy as punch because Soleimani ordered Torture and k*****g of the regular people !
The real Iranian people are happy as punch because Soleimani ordered Torture and k*****g of the regular people !
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