In era of perpetual conflict, a volatile president grabs expanded powers to make war
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran meets with reporters at a news conference in New York during a visit to the United Nations on Sept. 26, 2019.
A little more than six months later, Trump ordered the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who led the powerful Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. It was a move — set in motion after a rocket attack on Dec. 27 by forces linked to Iran killed an American contractor in Iraq — that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama considered too provocative to authorize.
How Trump sees the killing of Soleimani as advancing his broader agenda on Iran is unclear, and Friday he seemed to portray the operation as something of a one-off: a necessary step to ensure that tensions between the U.S. and Iran do not spiral out of control.
“He doesn’t want to get entangled. But he doesn’t want to look weak,” said Cohn, adding that her opinions did not necessarily represent those of the Defense Department.
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