We can discuss the pros and cons of taking out this general until the cows come home.
My biggest concern is on what basis was this action taken and for what purpose.
Is this action a result of the rule of law or was this action taken as a rule of Trump?
And for what purpose? To further the political agenda of Trump or to further American interests in the world?
All actions by the US government should follow the rule of law with the law being based on the US Constitution.
All foreign actions by our government should be done to further American interests or further democracy and the rule of law.
We should never ask people to die so we can further the political career of a person or group of people.
Congress has sole power to declare war. That has been enshrined in the US Constitution from the beginning.
Had American troops been attacked, of course, those troops should do what is absolutely necessary to protect the forces that are being attacked on the ground and in that region.
What Trump has done is considered by the international world as an act of war. This was a top Iranian general that we used a drone to kill him. Not some tribal chief out in some desert somewhere.
Suppose for a moment, that the the Iranians made a direct attack on the US killing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We would consider that an act of war.
The proper response for Trump if Iran attacked American forces would have been for Trump to get authority from Congress to take out Iran military. This can be obtained within hours if necessary.
Without that authority, an attempt to round up any persons here in the US responsible for the attack on the US is about all that Trump could do, that is, if Trump is being the chief executive officer of the US under the rule of law, not the US under the rule of Trump.
It has been a week and Congress hasn't been informed of what was done, why, and what the alternatives would have been if this apparent act of war was not carried out.
Once again, Trump is following the dictates of Trump without any pretense of following constitutional law.
Once Congress and the people are notified to all the circumstances (without endangering any Americans) and if Trump asks Congress and Congress approves then we will be under the rule of law and Trump have the authority to began an offensive against Iran or other rogue nation.
There has not been any indication that there was any immediate danger by the US choosing to not carry out an act of war against Iran by the US assassinating the top general of another nation.
WWI was a horrible war resulting in the deaths of millions of people. The major nations of the world stumbled into WWI as a result of an assassination.
At the time, no one suspected that the world was headed for a world war.
Perhaps, this general needed to be taken out. This should have been directed from the entire military with authority from Congress.
Without information coming from Our Dear Leader Donald the First, we are left to our own suspicions why.
Consider: Abrumpty, Trump turned against the Kurds and gave to Russia a large part of Syria. What else was going on at the time? Trump was being impeached by the House. That is what was going on. Trump made this decision all by himself without reviewing it with his military experts.
Why? To create a diversion from the impeachment by the House.
Is there anything happening now that is similar to the Syria disaster? As a matter of fact there is. The trial of Trump is about to start in the Senate. Would Trump start a war to detract the Congress and the American people away from that trial?
The tragic news is that, yes, that is exactly what I think happened.
A top general of a foreign nation was attacked and killed which is an act of war according to international laws.
There will be most likely be many Americans and Iranians to die just to protect Trump's fat ass!
Does Trump have any moral character? Time and again, Trump shows us that no he doesn't. It is all about Our Dear Leader Donald the First.
How many people have already gone to prison to protect Trump? How many more of Trump's pawns will fall on their own swords to keep Trump out of prison?
Trump has no loyalty to the US Constitution he has taken an oath to protect. The only law Trump knows is whatever Trump wants in any given moment in time.
We are now living in the Age of the Rule by the Whims of Emperor Donald I. Not Rule of Law!
It would not surprise me if Trump is already laying the plans for Don Jr to take his place. Emperor Donald II. Like Assad in Syria or the Kim family in North Korea.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr would all be horrified to see how Trump has distorted democracy and the US Constitution beyond any recognition at all.
It is tragic to see a once great nation take such a nose dive in such a short time.
All it takes is trading the rule of law to the rule of some tyrant.
The tragedy for me is that I am not writing about a despot Russia or China. I am writing about my own nation, the United States of America.
Trump and the Republican Party must be voted out of office in 2020. The consequences of not doing so could see the end of the United States as a democratic republic.
