Was move by U.S. worth the risk?

I finally get it — politics is not my expertise; what has happened in the Middle East has taken me a while to figure out.

Trump may have eliminated a terrorist, but what he really did was assassinate a beloved general of another country. A country in the Middle East that has the capability of producing nuclear weapons. Iran signed a pact with the Obama administration to cease doing this. Trump immediately trashed this agreement when taking office.

Most everyone who is politically savvy knows Qassem

Suleiman was a revered general, and second in command in Iran.

Obama and Bush knew eliminating him would cause major conflict, and was not worth the risk of a war. We already have such tentative ties to negotiating peace, and possessing nuclear weapons only makes it riskier.

Let’s be clear on this part: I think this is the crime.

“He was a bad man and we killed him,” Trump literally boasted, tweeted and gloated everywhere and on the nation’s news.

Well, we all know bad men, so does that make it all right for us to take them out?

That act alone should make stupid a crime against humanity for future presidents.

The people of Iran hate not only Trump, but all Americans now — he has succeeded in sealing their fate abroad. It would suck to be an American travelling in the east right now.

The land of the free for Americans could literally mean only in their own country.

Cherylle Winacott, Saskatoon