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With the elimination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Donald Trump gets his first good news cycle in several weeks and he deserves every minute of it. But can it last, and will the president overplay his hand? Also, the hypocrisy of noted “throuple” enthusiast and recently resigned Rep. Katie Hill’s defenders.
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I think there is a difference between killing a leader of a power we are in a shooting war with, and killing the leader of a power we are not in a shooting war with.
As was pointed out, with President Obama, there was no lasting political advantage to whacking Laden. I think in both cases, there were not hard calls for the Presidents to make. If you have the opportunity to kill the “generals” in a war, you do it. The voters see that.