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Disclosure: I think the dude was a combatant in the middle of a well known and wide ranging battlefield, and was probably masterminding the things the gov’t has accused him of. However, wrt whether this was well thought out or rash? POTUS is sometimes a bit vain and values his self image, and after railing against endless ME wars during campaign think has taken the recent attacks/rhetoric as personal affronts and personal challenges...leading to a rash decision. Throw what you thought were red lines for IR out, because the calculus has changed a bit. I expect a lot of asymmetric activity soon...

We may be told to leave and a new can of worms opens: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-primeminister/rival-shiite-leaders-in-iraq-call-for-us-troop-expulsion-in-rare-show-of-unity-idUSKBN1Z20JO Not sure how to view this move, but they killed an American, that's Trump's redline and unlike the other guy, he acted. Something had to be done as you can only be pushed so many times until you have to give someone a bloody nose. Dude was a legit target but try to avoid by 10 NM anything that would draw us in any further (directly) into any conflict in that region. We save blood and treasure by not taking the bait sometimes. The whole ME is just an insoluble problem that is not actually that important to the US anymore. We should begin a slow disengagement over the next 3 years. Tucker Carlson with JD Vance had intelligent commentary on this, at the 18:20 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLk22tGaD1Q

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/column-what-the-killing-of-qassem-soleimani-could-mean-for-iran Pretty nuanced view.

Happy New Year. Loss of confidence?

Just saying, one of those ghosted was a guest of President Obama in the Oval office, a policy change in the extreme.

They actually connect via a phenolic flange of the 4th harmonic resonance generator.

This is not an apples to apples comparison...SOCOM/CC isn’t the leader of an organization that routinely kills and maims foreign soldiers and civilians using terroristic tactics. If you lead an attack on a sovereign nations embassy, they’re going to be consequences...Unfortunately we’ve injected ourselves into the ME, and after this, getting out will be much more challenging.

We regularly engage foreign fighters in Iraq. And we don't check their passports before going kinetic. He was in the wrong place as an enemy combatant, on a known battlefield that we have been fighting on for years. I hope for the sake of his family he had SGLI.

While I agree with the general sentiment...they did attack our embassy. I appreciate an armed response compared to what happened in Benghazi.

At first I assumed you posted this in the wrong thread. But he was a commander, and he did drop like a fly this year, so well played.