Democrats Failed The Debate Question On Qassem Soleimani

None of the people who answered gave a competent answer or would have done it.

Via Washington Examiner:

At the New Hampshire 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate on Friday, Democrats failed when questioned on whether they would have authorized the U.S. military strike which killed Qassem Soleimani.

Soleimani, commander of the covert action arm of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in a January U.S. drone strike in Baghdad. President Trump authorized that strike in response to Soleimani’s effort to organize attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq and the broader Middle East, and in the context of the Iranian general’s historic role in killing hundreds of U.S. soldiers during the Iraq War.

But as I say, Democrats were unconvincing.

Pete Buttigieg was first to respond, and he offered platitudes. He said he would not have authorized a strike against Soleimani unless he could “evaluate the entire intelligence picture” and know what all the “different effects would be.” This might sound good, but it fails to realize a simple truth: There is no such thing as perfect intelligence. Inadequate information must be assessed in short order to come to the best possible decision. Nor does the commander in chief benefit, as Buttigieg seems to believe, from a time travel device which allows them to see what the “different effects” of an action will be before said action is even ordered.

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