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Sulemani and the Surly Wolverine, January 8th, 2020.

Introduction

So the Iranian General Sulemani was taken out by an American missile a few days ago,

and this has resulted in a good deal of agitated discussion and

there's a pressing temptation whenever things like this are done for all the

participants in our their anti-Americanism from time to time, and so they do that.

But there are layers to this thing, and we cannot simply support or oppose.

We need to learn how to combine an odd mix of both.

We need to learn how to say it depends. What aspect of this are we talking about?

In what follows I offer just a short punch list of issues related to all of it.

Suleimani himself.

The Iranian general was a bad actor and he was in Iraq because, as a military analyst

might say, he was up to no good.

Our embassy had just been attacked and an attack on an embassy is tantamount to an

attack on the United States itself.

Whether you believe US troops should be in Iraq or not, there's certainly no objection to an embassy

being there.

So this was not an assassination of an Iranian general in Iran.

Rather it was a strategic strike against an enemy combatant in the field of battle.

And so as a general matter his demise coming in this way was richly deserved.

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