John Kerry tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it was “always an option” to take out Soleimani, through several administrations, but “people made a judgment that the cost of doing so was not going to change the dynamic sufficiently that it was worth that cost because of the simple reason that we’ve already seen” with the Trump-Iran crisis.
John Kerry: Other admins considering killing Soleimani, but cost was too great
John Kerry tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it was “always an option” to take out Soleimani, through several administrations, but “people made a judgment that the cost of doing so was not going to change the dynamic sufficiently that it was worth that cost because of the simple reason that we’ve already seen” with the Trump-Iran crisis.
