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Letters

I refer to George Cassidy Payne’s letter regarding President Donald J. Trump (“Donald Trump and his base celebrated a murder, in a church”, January 12).
In my humble opinion, the US president should be impeached over his troubling adoration for dictators, along with his calling parts of the US Constitution “phoney”, so he believes he has the power to disregard or not enforce it, even though he was sworn in to do just that.
Clearly, President Trump is a wannabe dictator and his most recent order to kill Qassem Soleimani because he posed an “imminent” danger, without revealing exactly what that imminent danger was, is yet another clue as to just how unstable our self-proclaimed “stable genius” is.

“A Very Stable Genius!” Thank you.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2019

Indeed, President Trump is “a clear and present danger” to the US and the rest of the free world via his erratic behaviour.
Herb Stark, North Carolina 
Warmonger US back in business with Qassem Soleimani killing
The assassination of general Qassem Soleimani is the new “weapons of mass destruction” – just another excuse for American warmongering.
Not a good look, America. Not a good way to protect your own interests. And certainly not the way to win friends and influence people.
The Americans took out Saddam Hussein, whose chemical warfare against Iran they previously supported, invigorating al-Qaeda and later spawning Islamic State.
Subsequently, the rest of the sane world, then led by an equally sane Barack Obama, reached a deal with Iran to restrain its nuclear ambitions.
Western troops, together with the Iranians and Kurds, who did most of the fighting, took back territory captured by Islamic State jihadists. One would have thought the sensible thing to do in this case would be to acknowledge the contribution made by the Iranians and Kurds.
Was unilaterally assassinating the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, unilaterally abandoning the nuclear deal with Tehran and unilaterally abandoning the Kurds – sensible?
Jon Jovanovic, Lenah Valley, Tasmania


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A mourner holds up a picture of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, during a rally in his memory in Tehran on January 4. Photo: Reuters

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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington in March 2019. Photo: AFP