As this unfolds this morning, was that value high enough for this to qualify as a “retaliation”? On the heels of that, if they were, and the Iranian government did in fact leak the info to avoid U.S. casualties, did the symbolism of the attack still have the strength necessary to accomplish what they intended?
What was that intent? Two things occur to me. One is the obvious idea that you’d better do something when a foreign nation offs one of your generals or nobody respects you, and you lose all of the next elections for a while. Two is to wonder if this might not be a message to the American people, that while appearances had to be kept up, this is supposed to demonstrate a genuine intention not to escalate things. I start thinking about the possible ramifications of this and I get woozy. Can they sell this “sword of Damocles” idea enough to think that it may give them some influence in the 2020 elections?
Unfortunately, much will be decided by the orange idiot who is about to go before the cameras and rant crazily for a time, which, much to my detriment and dismay, I will be forced to watch.
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