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TNNurse

(6,931 posts) Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:21 PM Jan 2020

I am no military historian.

So please help me. Has assassinating a military leader ever stopped a war????

Does Trump think he has dropped nukes on a foreign country and they will surrender to him??

Dear God, how many people have to die (from any country) to feed his ego????

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I am no military historian. (Original Post) TNNurse Jan 2020 OP

What scares me, he makes these decisions seemingly in the dewsgirl Jan 2020 #1

Assassinating military leaders doesn't make their country's actions change. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #2

It likely will change things -- for the worse. unblock Jan 2020 #4

He certainly didn't heed Vizzini's advice. BuffaloJackalope Jan 2020 #3

Never trust a Sicilian? unblock Jan 2020 #5

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

1. What scares me, he makes these decisions seemingly in the

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:28 PM

Jan 2020

moment, with very little to no input from the Pentagon, consequences be damned. Then we have his base, especially the evangelicals cheering him on, praying it goes wrong so they get their rapture.😳🙄

The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. Assassinating military leaders doesn't make their country's actions change.

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:31 PM

Jan 2020

Suleimani was a bad guy but I'm sure Iran has plenty of other bad guys to go around, and they will keep on carrying out the policies of Iran's government and its military operations. This is nothing like killing OBL, who was already in hiding and whose removal was intended as a signal to al-Qaeda, which was already fragmented, that they and their movement would never be safe. Taking out the leader of a non-state organization like al-Qaeda can be useful; taking out one military leader in a country with a very large, well-organized military structure will do nothing to change that country's policies.