>couldn't order strikes
Or they assumed they would hear about anything happening in advance and got caught with their pants down.
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<I am a member of the "Gang of 8" which is typically briefed in advance of operations of this level of significance. We were not.
>foreshadowed attack
Don't know if this has been discussed or brought up, but wouldn't this mean whoever wrote and/or edited that article at the NYT was willingly and knowingly aiding and abetting a person openly hostile to the country? We ARE technically engaged on a War on Terror, and Soleimani was considered a prominent and dangerous terrorist calling for the destruction of the US so… treason?
Smashed his face in, in the other picture his face is ~~visible~~ intact.
It does, and you can pretty clearly make out his mouth, the bridge of his nose connecting into the brow line, and both eye sockets. The second picture is literally just mush below the forehead. They stomped his face in.