In Baghdadi’s death, did US really ‘kill its own creature’?
Deccan ChronicleHard to believe, but the great poet, Ghalib would have envied Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Osama bin Laden for the way the two were drowned and not buried. Always contrary to what the US calls “normal behaviour”, Iran’s information minister Javad Azari-Jahromi said, “No big deal, you just killed your creature”. But the New York Times’ establishment columnist Thomas Friedman notes, satirically, how “effusive Trump was of the intelligence agencies who found and tracked al-Baghdadi to his lair in Syria where he blew himself up to avoid being captured”. Little wonder, Mr Friedman loathes senators obstructing Mr Trump’s impeachment: “Despicable, disgusting” he said on CNN. Mr Obama stated quite plainly: “We did not just start taking a bunch of airstrikes all across Iraq because that would have taken the pressure off the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al Maliki”.
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