He has criticized Trump and usually anything critical of Trump, regardless of merit, is warmly supported by Democrats. What’s odd, though, is that the entirely justifiable U.S. strike on Soleimani produced, in turn, a direct Iranian missile strike on two U.S. bases in Iraq. The missile strikes against two U.S. bases, as it happened, killed no U.S. servicemen. If anything, it would seem that Iran’s missile strikes were what demanded a resolute response. The time for retaliation in the wake of Iran’s dastardly missile strikes has now passed.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 20, 2020 21:11 UTC