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Democrats still delusional about Trump even after Qassem Soleimani death: Goodwin
By Michael Goodwin
January 4, 2020 | 10:43pm
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The calendar turns and a decade begins, but there is nothing new under the sun in Washington. Even the killing of an Iranian mass murderer is cause for more partisan strife.
In a sane country, which America used to be, there would be shared sober satisfaction over the elimination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Yet Democrats apparently outsourced their reactions to robots, whose script called for conceding that the departed was a very bad man, but prohibited approval of President Trump’s decision to take him out.
Instead, the quibblers’ chorus raised questions of timing and expressed fear of escalation and retaliation. In the context of Iran’s military aggression and Soleimani’s bloody hands, there is another word for that fear: appeasement.
Or, as defense specialist Michael Doran wrote in The New York Times, the fear of war “ignores the fact that Mr. Soleimani has been waging war on America and its allies for years.”
The latest example was the attack on our embassy in Baghdad, carried out by groups allied with Iran. That is the sort of dirty work Soleimani specialized in — getting Arab Muslim proxies to fight and die for Iran’s goal of regional dominance.
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The criticism also shows Dems still haven’t figured out Trump. The self-proclaimed king of counterpunching has never been content to trade glancing blows. “If you hit me, I’ll hit back, 10 times harder,” he has said.
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Trump addressed those issues and more in his clear and forceful remarks Friday. Like his best speeches, it was relatively brief, lasting about five minutes, and skipped soaring oratory in favor of plain talk that spelled out his policy and red lines.
Although nearly 3,000 more American soldiers are being sent to the region, the president said he favors de-escalation, declaring, “We took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action to start a war.”
He repeated his promise that the US is not seeking regime change, but urged Iran to end its “aggression.” He also warned it would pay a heavy price for any retaliation, saying, “If Americans anywhere are threatened, we have all of those targets already fully identified, and I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary.”
That is what peace through strength sounds like. Democrats and the mullahs would be wise to pay attention.
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