I had a feeling that it would come to this.
It would be a terrible tragedy if it were to happen, and it puts Trump’s family in danger as well. My question is: did Trump think through his decision to assassinate an immensely popular Iranian military leader? Does he believe that, because he is President of the United States, that he is somehow invincible, or safely shielded from a more personal revenge attack on the part of Iranian assassins? I think of the car bomb placed under the vehicle of the captain of the USS Vicennes, the warship that shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, killing 290 people. Thankfully the car bomb didn’t achieve it’s objective of killing the captain, although it did almost kill his wife. The point being that it borders the impossible to protect against assassination, no matter how powerful the nation in which you serve happens to be. This seems to be something that our leaders should take into account. If they don’t care about the consequences of their actions for this country, they should at least worry about their own hide, and that of their family and friends.
Iran won’t soon forget the murder of Soleimani, and their revenge unfortunately may take the form of targeted strikes rather than all-out war.
