'Then again, maybe Trump hopes he can win the first Nobel Peace Prize for preventing war by promising war crimes'
The president who vows war crimes on Twitter. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images President Trump and his administration have claimed that the drone strike targeting Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani was an effort to de-escalate tension with Iran and prevent a war, but it’s not clear what role Trump expects his blustering tweets to play in that process. On Saturday, the president responded to Iran’s vow to retaliate for Soleimani’s death by tweeting that the U.S.
Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years.
In addition, a pair of rockets were fired at bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, though it seems unlikely that indirect rocket fire was part of any official Iranian response. Meanwhile, speculation has been rampant about if, when, or how Iran might retaliate, but the regime’s threats have apparently been enough to prompt an escalation-begging response from Trump that mirrors their own often-outlandish rhetoric.
It’s also difficult to take Trump’s threat seriously, considering the fact that hyperbolic outbursts are a key element of what he perceives to be foreign policy — as well as how he pointed out that the number of targets was chosen to line up with the 52 hostages Iran once took at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, which is not how the U.S. — or any nation — goes about picking military targets.
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