With clarity lacking as to how Trump's decision to kill Soleimani was made, the diplomatic corp tends to see it as an impulsive act: “It was of course a serious escalation...and seemingly devoid of strategic rationale”
The Washington defense and diplomatic communities are not exactly mourning the death of Qasem Soleimani, a powerful Iranian commander who was killed by a U.S. airstrike on Thursday night. “Soleimani was a murderer and the major source of violence in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon for three decades,” said, former ambassador to NATOechoing a near-unanimous position. “He was an enemy of the U.S., responsible for hundreds of American deaths.
The White House has provided little information about the decision to strike the top commander. But both Secretary of Stateand the Pentagon have cast it as defensive. “General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” theabout the airstrike, which occurred at the airport in Baghdad just days after a series of attacks on U.S. troops and the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital.
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