"...the Soleimani targeting is triggering the same strain of derangement that fueled impeachment. If you hate Trump, every event is just grist for the effort to tear him down."

Michael Goodman asks in the New York Post,

What is the point of having a superior military force if it can’t be used to defend its homeland and citizens?

...Unfortunately, a counsel of timidity is now virtually the only voice heard on the left. Peace-through-strength advocates are as plentiful as hen’s teeth in the modern Democratic Party, and that was true even before the birth of the hate-Trump phenomenon of the last three years.

President Barack Obama’s global apology tours shattered historic norms and his attempts to appease Iran’s mad mullahs broke new ground in the worst possible way. Iran took his concessions — and stacks of American cash — and used them to foment even more mayhem against our allies, including Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Soleimani was the spearhead of this violent expansion, and it is noteworthy that both Obama and his predecessor, President George W. Bush, passed up opportunities to drone him, fearing the backlash.

Trump, too, was patient, even as he shifted our Iran policy 180 degrees by exiting Obama’s misbegotten nuclear deal and using tough economic sanctions to try to force the regime to mend its ways. But his offers to meet were met with threats, the slaughter of Iranian dissidents, repeated attacks on our allies and, finally, our Baghdad embassy.

...the Soleimani targeting is triggering the same strain of derangement that fueled impeachment. If you hate Trump, every event is just grist for the effort to tear him down.

Whatever he says or does must be mocked and resisted. Don’t let facts or even national security get in the way of your moral preening.

...passivity in the face of evil has never yielded a durable peace.

Even the most plausible Dem criticism — that Trump acted without congressional approval — fails the test of common sense. Should he have called for a public vote? Should he have trusted Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff to keep the mission secret?

The bitter acrimony Dems created with their impeachment jihad left Trump no practical alternative to a secret raid. Especially when, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, Soleimani was preparing to launch more attacks on Americans. That’s presumably why he was in Baghdad and meeting with a cabal of evildoers, all of whom died with him.

Although nearly 3,000 more American soldiers are being sent to the region, the president said he favors de-escalation, declaring, “We took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action to start a war.”

He repeated his promise that the US is not seeking regime change, but urged Iran to end its “aggression.” He also warned it would pay a heavy price for any retaliation, saying, “If Americans anywhere are threatened, we have all of those targets already fully identified, and I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary.”

That is what peace through strength sounds like. Democrats and the mullahs would be wise to pay attention.

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