i wonder if he had congressional approval

Well none war time drone strikes anyway

Wtf is Iran even gonna do about it

idk

They can't do nothing

The man was to important to the regime

I mean they can fuck up the embassy again if they act fast enough

Maybe

i mean... assasinating the second most powerful person in Iran without congressional approval might get him impeached X2

We'll have to see

i mean Trump's Iran policy is terrible

Well I mean

if Trump did it to "intimidate" or something, i think that'lll totally backfire, if anything Qassem will be a martyr

What president can threaten a country over twitter and then kill three prominent people from their government a few days later/

thing I'd be worried about is all the US personnel in the country.

Apparently trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or even US citizens

things like vigilante justice could happen

well yeah, I'm sure this will stir up a massive regional war

revenge killings an all

Reading the dude runs a lot of terrorists activity so the strike could have been deliberate

ran*

Well actually drone strikes rarely kill civilians

This is kind of a strange thing that was pushed around in the media for a while

The supposed arguments for it killing a lot of civilians are that only 2% of the targets were high value targets, so therefore the rest must be civilians, which is kind of silly

Like salon and the guardian and all that based it on a "study" that looked at 2000 drone strikes and found that we only knew who the targets were ahead of time 2% of the time

That doesn't mean 98% of the targets were civilians

The figure was then changed to 400 civilians killed in drone strikes which would be a 20% death rate, which pakistan of all countries, who made the Taliban, then refuted by suggesting it would only be as high as 65 civilians killed out of 2000 drone strikes, or like 3%, vs. around 17 according to the U.S. estimate or, 1%

My intuition (aka educated guess) gives a number of 37

This would be at best like 2% of drone strikes result in civilian causalties

one of the main missiles we use is actually a kinetic missile, meaning it doesn't explode

it's actually designed to take out like 1-2 people

it would be hard to believe there's tons of civilian causalties from the smallest missle on our smallest plane that doesn't even explode

well i dont trust the US govs numbers

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https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c750ec10cc7ff84281451212b8b1e306

You can see how the the blades open up and it just kills people by hitting them

You aren't going to get a lot of civiluan causalties from this

so as long as its only a few innocent civilians die its ok

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civilian deaths are inevitable in any war, if you can reduce the causalties, than it's good