Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   It Has Always Been Date:   1/6/2020 10:03:41 AM

It remains to be seen whether this will stabilize or destabilize things in the ME in the short and long run.  No doubt Iran will lash out in various ways but Khamenei must be worrying about his own safety at this point and not from the U.S., but from within Iran.  But make no mistake, this guy deserved his fate and it was long overdue.  Whether despots get the message that there is new sheriff in town with Trump is the real question.  Not knowing anything specific about that part of the world other than what I have read, I can only make my judgement about this drone strike is based on who is supportive and who opposes it.  Based on that, for now it seems to me to be the right decision.  One thing we know for sure is that Obama's appeasement was an abysmal failure and seen in the ME as weakness.....which it was.

On another note, only Trump could get the left to come out in support of a homicidal maniac that hates America and is responsbile for the deaths of thousands to tens of thousands, including Americans.  And the Babyon Bee strikes again with a satire piece about Democrats wanting to have the American flag staffs lowered to half mast for Sulaimani.  And the media is all agog fretting that people will think it's true.  That they are concerned about that is pretty telling.  Given their response, it's entirely plausible.