Killing of Soleimani reflects an aggressive national security team not inclined to curb Trump
Trump has from his earliest days in office raised the possibility of killing Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian military commander who died this month in a U.S. military drone strike.
As a presidential candidate in 2015, Trump in an interview didn’t seem to have heard of Soleimani or the paramilitary Iranian Quds Force he led. But within five months of taking office, Trump was raising the possibility of killing him — an idea he would bring up several times again in the months and years to follow.
The president’s decision to act now was a response to increased Iranian aggression in the Middle East and an “imminent threat” that the administration has struggled to consistently describe. But the attack also reflects Trump’s growing comfort in his job and the presence of a new group of top national security advisers who are more hawkish on Iran, more willing to provide him with aggressive options and less inclined to check his instincts.
Trump initially floated the possibility of killing Soleimani in the spring of 2017 when Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia’s capital just before Trump’s arrival, according to one current and one former U.S. official. But then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resisted any action.
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In other words Trump's finally found his "yes men". Very scary.
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Will other countries follow the "leader"? Hit lists and drone assassinations of government officials?
