The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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OT: true. I was putting myself in Trump’s brain 8^) . Benghazi was one of his favorite topics re Hillary and what happened w the Baghdad embassy last week bore similarities to what happened w/ Tehran embassy in 1979 which cratered Carter’s re-election. Trump would remember that fiasco is astute enough to not allow himself to be put in a similar predicament.

Soleimani was arrogant wrt to his ‘untouchability’. His meeting w Mahdi presented an optimal 2-fer and Mahdi was definitely somebody overdue for extinction. The fact they were meeting days after attempted storming of the embassy gives credence to possible planning of Tehran replay.

In case folks don’t remember Mahdi was involved in bombing at least 2 US embassies going back to 1983.