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Late-night hosts address inconsistent and hollow justifications for the killing of Suleimani and Iran’s retaliatory strike on US troops in Iraq
On the Daily Show, Trevor Noah continued to assess the fallout from Donald Trump’s decision to order a lethal drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Iraq last week. “Aside from the million or so people at his funeral yesterday, everyone else agrees that Suleimani was a bad guy responsible for death and destruction around the world,” Noah said, pointing to the general’s campaign of violence against US soldiers and his support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. “But as bad as Suleimani was, not everyone agrees that killing him like this was a good idea, the same way things only got worse when America got rid of Saddam Hussein, or when America got rid of Moammar Qaddafi, or when America got rid of gluten – because I don’t know what it actually is, all I know is once it was gone, everything tasted like shit.” Continue reading...