The bright side of US chest-pounding with Iran

SACRAMENTO >> After President Trump ordered the extrajudicial killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said publicly that this act of war was justified because of an “imminent” Iranian threat that put “dozens if not hundreds of American lives at risk.” He couldn’t share the intelligence, of course, given its top-secret nature — and then before you know it Pompeo and Trump had largely dropped that storyline.
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