US-Iran crisis escalates - Trump’s gift to Tehran — a martyr

There must — mustn’t there? — have been someone in the room who asked questions when the US president, Donald Trump, and his advisors met to discuss the proposal to kill Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani.

“Yes, we can kill him, but what’s our assessment of the risks of retaliation for the US and our allies? What’s our strategy for getting Iran to behave like, as we say, a normal nation?”