The Democrats irrational reaction to Trump's defense of US troops

Bernard Goldberg:

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The Democrats couldn’t wait 10 minutes before unloading on President Trump, condemning him for needless provocation, for taking the United States to “the brink of war,” because he ordered the drone strike that took out Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani.

Pinning blame for the heightened tensions in the Middle East on President Trump makes for irresistible presidential year politics. He’s a warmonger, they’re saying in one form or another; we’re the rational, peaceful ones. What you won’t hear them say, not in so many words, is that they’re the ones pandering to a pacifist, progressive base — because that’s where the heart and soul of the new Democratic Party seems to be.

We’ve seen how far left the Democrats have gone on domestic policies, but now we’re seeing how progressive they’ve become on foreign policy, too. They make Barack Obama look like a war hawk by comparison; he launched more than 500 drone attacks on America’s enemies, after all.

But now we get Joe Biden, the supposed moderate, telling us that President Trump “just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted that “Trump’s dangerous escalation brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East that could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the strike “reckless.”

Corey Booker (D-N.J.), who since has abandoned his presidential campaign, joined the chorus and tweeted: “We have a president who has no strategic plan when it comes to Iran and has only made that region less stable and less safe.” Memo to Sen. Booker: The Middle East was never Switzerland. When exactly was the region either stable or safe?

Reasonable people may speculate on the wisdom of President’s Trump’s decision to eliminate Soleimani. It’s understandable that politicians would have questions about a presidential order to take out the second most powerful person in Iran: Why now? Was he really planning an imminent attack on Americans?

Fair enough.

But for Democrats running for president, “Donald Trump is always wrong” is the default position. You get the impression that if he suddenly came out against building a wall on our southern border, they’d suddenly be in favor of it.

And since we’re imagining, let’s imagine that President Trump didn’t launch the attack on Soleimani; that he said the risk of killing such a prominent figure wasn’t worth it. And imagine if the general did indeed initiate a plan to kill Americans. What would Democrats say then? Donald Trump surely would be condemned for not taking action. Heads, they win; tails, he loses.
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There is no reason to trust the Democrats on foreign policy.  If they backed Obama's incredibly bad deal with Iran their judgment is suspect on dealing with that country.   John Kerry admitted at the time that Iran would probably use that money for attacking people in the region and seemed nonplused when the President said the attacks on US troops were paid for by the Obama windfall.