No, killing Soleimani doesn t mean war | Spectator USA

Donald Trump was elected to put Washington s emphasis back on the well-being of Americans, rather than on the imperial politics of the Middle East. A war with Iran would be a betrayal of his mandate a war that would lead to other wars and more prolonged occupation of the region. His domestic agenda, all his policies on trade and immigration, would fall by the wayside in the same fashion that George W. Bush s did as a result of the Iraq War. He would become another war president, and another failed president. But killing Soleimani doesn t make that inevitable on the contrary, by itself Soleimani s death brings an end to one of the villains whose role in stoking anti-American violence in the region made it harder for us to leave. President Trump has struck a blow for peace.

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