Tit-for-tat is clearly the game Trump thinks he’s playing

Donald Trump is belatedly frightened by the potential consequences of his impulsive order to kill Qassem Soleimani, and he’s trying to threaten his way out of an open U.S.-Iran war.

Donald Trump and Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani’s murder has largely erased that resentment: he is yet another Shia martyr to the cause. The prime minister of Iraq showed up at his huge funeral procession in Baghdad on Saturday, and an extraordinary session of the Iraqi parliament has been called to debate a resolution demanding the expulsion of U.S. troops from Iraq, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 6, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—If the Iranians played the game the same way that Donald Trump does, then their revenge for the American assassination of Iran’s leading general, Qassem Soleimani, would be a simple tit-for-tat. Just kill U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the man who actually organized the hit an...

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