Trump rang in 2020 by committing an unprovoked act of war against Iran, after ripping up America's diplomatic agreement with that nation (that Obama had pursued, so as to frustrate the neocons' push for war) and attempting to destroy its economy through secondary sanctions.
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1332404765591007233
As it happened, killing Soleimani did not provoke a new U.S. war in the Middle East. But that has a lot more to do with Iranian pragmatism than Trumpian restraint.
Obama's drone war was horrible. Trump's has been more expansive and even less transparent. theatlantic.com/international/…
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I have no objection to rubbing liberals' faces in the imperial horrors that Obama oversaw, or to the argument that Bush's presidency was more destructive than Trump's...
But don't see the point of making wholly subjective statements (how does one quantify "moral evil"?) that flatter the tenure of a president who expanded drone wars, escalated tensions with Iran, backed the Saudis to the hilt, and pardoned this child-killer theguardian.com/us-news/2019/d…
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