The assassination debate and implications

The State Department believes Soleimani s death was not assassination.

I did this for two years in the Bush administration, someone only identified by the State Department as Senior State Department Official Three told reporters on Friday. Assassinations are not allowed under law. Revenge killings, non-judicial executions are not. The criteria is do you have overwhelming evidence that somebody is going to launch a military or terrorist attack against you. Check that box. The second one is do you have some legal means to, like, have this guy arrested by the Belgian authorities or something. Check that box because there s no way anybody was going to stop Qasem Soleimani in the places he was running around Damascus, Beirut. And so, you take lethal action against him. This is something that we have done many times over both Democratic and Republican administrations that I served in. It s the same criteria; it was applied in this case and all cases.

via hotair.com

The only debate is whether it was a good idea to grease the sucker (I happen to think it was, but we’ll just have to wait and see). In the meantime, it’s OK to shake one’s head while the left beclowns itself.