STARTING OUT WITH A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE, SS tells it like it's been, it now is and how it's going to be with Trump, the new sheriff in town.
Schneiderman writes
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a new sheriff in town.
Gone are the days when American presidents would cower under their desks. Gone
are the days when American presidents would react to attacks against our
soldiers and citizens with empty threats. Gone are the days when attacks on American
embassies and consulates would produce more rhetoric and less action.
When Hezbollah attacked a marine barracks in Beirut, killing
nearly 300 troops, Ronald Reagan pulled our troops out of Lebanon. He
threatened harsh reprisals and did nothing.
When the Iranian regime invaded the American embassy in
Tehran and took our citizens hostage, Jimmy Carter sent a helicopter to rescue
them, only to see it crash and burn in the Iranian desert.
When American pilots caught sight of a convoy of Taliban
officials escaping the American invasion in the early days of the Afghanistan
War, American commanders consulted with lawyers-- who told them not to attack
the convoy, because someone might get hurt.
And, when terrorists attacked the American ambassador in Benghazi,
Libya the Obama administration refused to send help, but denounced and jailed a
man who had made a video.
When Iranians captured and humiliated American sailors in
the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State John Kerry eventually thanked them for
releasing the sailors unharmed.
As for the last, the Obama policy in the Middle East
involved cozying up with Iran and betraying Sunni Arabs and Israel. Now, with
President Trump’s swift and decisive retaliation for the Iran-instigated attack
on the American embassy in Baghdad, Democratic chickenshits are cowering in the
corner, fearful of the righteous might of Iran.
If you want to know why the nation is divided against
itself, look at the Democratic presidential candidates, trembling in fear,
having long since abandoned even the pretense of patriotism. Nothing can stop their will to surrender to terrorism.
Qasem
Soleimani had the blood of hundreds, if not thousands
of Americans on his hands. The Democrats are horrified that President
Trump
just reduced him to ashes. I probably don't need to mention it, but if
Obama had done exactly the same thing, these same Democrats would have
praised him as the most courageous military leader since Alexander the
Great.
Eric Nagourney got it right in the New York Times:
In July 2018, after President Trump warned
Iran’s president not to threaten the United States, a rejoinder came not from
the Iranian leader but from a military figure perhaps even more powerful.
“It is beneath the dignity of our president to
respond to you,” Maj.
Gen. Qassim Suleimani declared in a speech in western Iran. “I, as a
soldier, respond to you.”
On Friday, General
Suleimani was reported
killed in an airstrike in Baghdad.
As for who he was, this man whose death strikes such fear in
the hearts of cowardly Democrats, the Daily Mail summarizes:
Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani,
who was killed Friday in a US strike, was one of Iran's
most prominent figures and a deadly adversary to America and its allies.
As the head of the Quds - or Jersualem - Force
of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani was officially charged
with protecting the Islamic revolution, and in practice was used to enforce the
regime's will across the Middle East.
Commonly known as the second most powerful man
in Iran, wielding more influence than the president, he was seen by many as a
future leader.
His CV included helping Shia militias to kill
hundreds of American troops during the US invasion of Iraq,
backing Assad as he slaughtered civilians by the thousands during the Syrian
civil war, and most recently overseeing the slaughter of hundreds of anti-Iran
protesters in Iraq.
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