COMMENTARY: The 2020s have already begun with a military bang
The new decade begins with U.S. President Donald Trump trying to get out of his latest mess in Syria, Iraq and Iran.
The president has, for once, gone well past his usual huffing and puffing.
Early
Friday morning, he made good on his threat to launch pre-emptive
strikes against Iran for threatening Americans at their embassy in
Baghdad. The U.S. killed the leader of Iran’s most elite Revolutionary
Guard unit, the despicable Qassem Soleimani, as well as a leader of Shia militia proxies in Iraq.