https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/08/iran-blinks-point-trump/
The dust is settling on Iran’s retaliatory missile attack on two Iraqi air bases. We are seven days into what we are told is war with Iran.
But what is it, the start of a massive, catastrophic war, or the end of one? Let’s do the math.
The Iranians, engaged in what has been business as usual for the last 40 years, had a proxy militia launch missiles at an Iraqi base a couple of weeks ago, killing an American contractor. The United States, tired of this, responded by killing 25 members of the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia that launched the missiles. Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, who has overseen Iran’s exports of terrorism throughout the region for three decades, orders an attack on the U.S. embassy.
The United States kills him.
Spectacularly, with big explosions, in Baghdad, where Soleimani had just landed to personally oversee the exportation of more terror.
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In this latest chapter of U.S.-Iranian relations, the mullahs had a problem. We had killed their top terror-export chief, who the American media won’t stop telling us was “revered.” So revered that 56 people were trampled to death at his funeral, in a repeat of the debacles at the funerals of Yasser Arafat and Ayatollah Khomeini. The mullahs had to do something.
So they fired a dozen missiles at Iraqi air bases Tuesday night. We are told they killed no one.
And they tweeted out, “We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.”
Translation: “We’re all done. Please don’t shoot back!’