@luigirovatti Trump probably did order the killing of Soleimani. I would hope he did, or that one of his generals did under the guidance of his policies. Otherwise you have some really rogue soldiers out there in US uniforms. But I think you need to go back in time for a few decades to fully understand who Soleimani was and what led to his being targeted. Soleimani was the leader of the Qud forces in Iran. The Qud forces are a special band (about 125,000 men) of soldiers whose function is to fight asymmetrical warfare in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebannon, and Afghanistan. This means they infiltrated and help build destabilizing factors against governments they didn’t like. They undertook terrorist style attacks. They helped train and form groups like Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations all in an effort to destabilize any government that wasn’t beneficial to Iran. Soleimani helped form this group and has directed it since 1998. Partly because of the actions of the Qud forces, Iran was named as a proliferator of terrorist organizations by Bush II in 2002. In 2011 the US Treasury put Soleimani onto the sanctions blacklist because of the terrorist activities he was involved with.
The killing of Soleimani was based on a long history of intelligence that he was behind, either directly or indirectly, many, many terrorist attacks. And the rocket attack on Dec 27, 2019 on a base in Iraq was one of those and it killed an American and several Iraqis and wounded many more. That was the trigger of mutual aggression between the US and Iran that went on for the next few days, culminating in the drone attack that killed Soleimani on Jan 3rd, 2020. Soleimani was not a nice man. He was not a harmless man.
Given all that, and understanding that there is probably tons of intelligence to which neither you nor I are privy, I’m really not sure where the idea that Trump must be arrested comes from. Are you suggesting that if someone attacks our people the POTUS should not use force in response or else should be arrested? Do you have the same feeling about Obama having Osama bin Laden killed? Should we have Robert Mueller arrested for creating the FBI’s Terrorist Top 10 list?
Let me give you an real-life example of a POTUS that does not use force to protect our people and how it worked out. Jimmy Carter. 52 US diplomats were taken hostage by Iran in 1979 and were held hostage for 444 days, Carter tried gentle diplomacy to get them back. Iran viewed that as weakness. The hostages were held until Reagan, who had campaigned partly on a promise to take severe military action against Iran to get them back, was sworn into office. Literally minutes after he was sworn in, Iran released the hostages. So is that the sort of leader you want for our nation? One that is viewed as being so weak that our people can be snatched overseas at a whim? And does that mean any US leader that has ever taken action against a foreign aggressor should be arrested?