01-03-2020, 02:59 PM
(01-03-2020, 02:17 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Qassem Suleimani was the head of a terrorist organization that had recently killed and were targeting American citizens.
One country's terrorist organization is another country's military. I am sure in some country's our military would be considered a terrorist group as we have launched strikes that have killed all sorts of civilians that the local government didn't agree with and we weren't at war with. In fact, Iran does label our entire military a terrorist group. The other issue here is he is acting on government issued orders, hence him being a government official. Blowing him up does nothing as someone else will step in because the government isn't just going to stop. Again, this is far different then Osama Bin Laden.
If someone blew up one of our generals in charge of middle eastern operations because we were planning to issue drone strikes on people from their country we disagreed with, we would call that an act of war.
