Given their druthers, politicians-as-usual choose appeasement every time. That’s how Iran, pre-Trump, paid a relatively minor price for its 40-year reign as the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.
Take House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was still regretting Soleimani’s demise Tuesday evening while Iranian rockets were falling on two bases in Iraq that house American troops.
Saying she was “closely monitoring” the attacks, she tweeted that “We must ensure the safety of our service members, including ending needless provocations from the Administration and demanding that Iran cease its violence.”
So targeting Soleimani was a “needless provocation”? She’s so full of rage, she probably wants to make his death a third article of impeachment.
As the left in our country continues to offer sympathy to Iran for our killing of Iran's terrorist leader Soleimani while also stoking fear of World War III, let me again remind all of us that we should focus more on making our enemies have worries about what we will do to them:
Or any holiday, really. Or just days that end in "y."