By Andrew Napolitano
Fox News
January 9, 2020
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Joel Rubin explains why he thinks President Trump ‘made a speech full of platitudes and gave us no clarity about the pathway off of this conflict’ in the wake of Iran’s missile attack on U.S. troops in Iraq.
“America … goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” — President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
President Trump ordered the U.S. military to invade a then-friendly country without the knowledge or consent of its government and assassinate a visiting foreign government official. The victim was the head of Iran’s military and intelligence. The formerly friendly country is Iraq.