Trump's Illegal, Impeachable Act of War
January 3, 2020
Maj. Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army officer and former history instructor at West Point. He served tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Violence begets violence; revenge engenders cycles of vengeance. This is exactly why war, or acts of war, must not be taken lightly. It also explains why Americas recent adventurism in the Middle East has only increased Islamic terrorism, killed hundreds of thousands worldwide, and ultimately left the U.S. no better off than when it began its crusade after the 9/11 attacks. Instead, this cycle of violence and revenge has produced nothing but blowback in the form of global anti-Americanism.
Which brings me to President Donald Trumps worst decision yet, one for which he actually should be impeached: the assassination of Iranian general, and head of the Revolutionary Guards Quds force, Qassem Soleimani. The weapon of choice in this genuine act of war, was, fittingly, the eras ubiquitous armed drone. Soleimani, perhaps the second or third most powerful figure in Iran, was blown away in Baghdad, where hed long led intelligence and military proxy operations for Tehran. And more than any of Americas many provocations of late, this killing might just lead to wara war that would, even more than the disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003, inflame, destabilize and perhaps destroy the region for good.
With so much on the lineboth for the United States and the worldthe time for silence is over. Public resistance is the only tool we the people have left.
It doesnt get any more illegal than a war with Iran or even the singular killing of Soleimani. The assassination of foreign leaders has long been prohibited under both national and international law, even if the U.S. hasnt always followed such strictures. As has long been the case in the so-called war on terror, the Presidents action was unilateral; Congress, it seems, wasnt consulted, and it certainly didnt provide sanction. And to be clear, while the assassination of a foreign general is an overt act of war, the U.S. is distinctly not at war with Iran, despite appearances to the contrary.
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