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PRESIDENT Donald Trump could barely contain himself. On the night of Saturday, October 26, he couldn't help tweeting a clue: "Something very big just happened!", He announced cryptically on Twitter. It is likely that most Americans did not pay attention to what the president said, since they would have become the copious amounts of nothing that their commander in chief publishes daily, even every hour.<\/p>\n
The "something very big" was a raid by the Delta Force of the United States in a complex in Idlib, in northern Syria. It was Sunday morning when President Trump was able to deliver his official speech. It was, as expected, full of hyperbole and rumble. The president declared that the self-appointed leader of the "Islamic State" had died as a coward and was "moaning and crying" towards the end. <\/p>\n
Read: The leader of the Islamic State, Baghdadi, died "in panic and fear," says Trump<\/em><\/p>\n Then, in a 46-minute freewheel exchange with the media that had gathered, he opined about many other things. This included, but was not limited to the fact that he had been the first and only person to point out that Osama Bin Laden had been a terrorist and needed to be taken out, but that no one had heard him. And, of course, no Trump press conference could conclude without a reiteration of its superiority over all other presidents. This raid and operation, Trump said, was more important than the raid that led to the murder of Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n No Trump press conference could conclude without a reiteration of its superiority over all other presidents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In the first hours after the raid, it seemed that the operation in which Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi died had saved Donald Trump. In a desperate situation, with an ongoing political trial investigation and more and more condemnatory evidence regarding his undercover dealings with Ukraine (he seems to have asked Ukraine to investigate the son of his electoral rival, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden), Trump I definitely needed something miraculous to deliver. <\/p>\n A raid in Syria during which the "most wanted live terrorist" died seemed to be just what (like the raid by Osama Bin Laden did for President Obama) would provide the necessary momentum to win a second term. The aesthetic seemed designed for that. The post-Obama raid photos showed the president curled up with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others while watching the raid. President Trump's post-raid photos showed him sitting at the head of a majestic conference table surrounded by his large number of advisors and secretaries, all presumably watching the live broadcast of the raid as it happened. <\/p>\n However, even though the event had all the ingredients of a great political victory, the raid in Baghdad seems to have failed, unable to provide the momentum that was required. <\/p>\n The test came just that night. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a World Series baseball game. The local Washington Nationals, DC team was playing against the Houston Astros. An estimated crowd of almost 50,000 people attended. And yet, at the end of the third inning, when President Trump was introduced, the entire stadium began to boo the president. If that were not enough, the boo was followed with strong chants of "Locking It Up", a variation of the song that Trump supporters use in relation to Hillary Clinton in Trump's demonstrations. If the stadium was a sample of Americans, Trump did not like, even loathed, whether or not he had caught Baghdadi or anyone else.<\/p>\n The reception of the raid in Baghdad by the establishment of the US foreign policy has also been interesting. Analysts of a variety of think tanks, the people who make up the industrial complex of terrorist analysis (which has become a giant in the 18 years since the September 11 attack), seemed terribly circumspect in their statements. Unlike the cooing and self-gratification after Bin Laden, many pointed out that terrorist networks and organizations are not eliminated if a leader is killed. At least one said it was wrong to say that the Americans had gotten to Baghdadi when, in fact, he had committed suicide with a suicide vest. <\/p>\n For the world beyond the US UU., Both the circumspection and the lack of attention and admiration for the raid are positive things. While it is a cause for celebration that a cruel man like Baghdadi is dead, the fact that the killings of high-profile terrorists no longer generate huge political dividends in the country suggests that the US terrorist policy may finally get away from his obsession for the high-value objectives. Terrorist analysts in Pakistan have repeatedly pointed out the questionable nature of the decapitation of leadership, but the United States had to realize itself and at its own time. <\/p>\n Although the incursion into Baghdadi will not free Trump from his growing unpopularity with his electorate, carrying out such incursions will become an accessory of every American presidency because of its potential to produce political successes. Terrorism, as Pakistanis know, is not something that can be eliminated, just something that can be handled and contained. Following the raid, the US Special Forces. UU. They destroyed the complex and took Baghdadi's remains with them. They were, like those of Osama Bin Laden, buried in the sea, except for the parts that have been used for DNA testing. <\/p>\n In the coming months, as the campaign for the next US presidency warms up. In the US, President Trump will undoubtedly claim that he has defeated the IS alone. According to the first days after the death of the world's most wanted man, it seems that Americans, who will vote for a new president in almost exactly one year, are not impressed. <\/p>\n The writer is a lawyer who teaches constitutional law and political philosophy.<\/em><\/p>\n rafia.zakaria@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n Posted on Dawn, October 30, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1513765\/can-baghdadi-save-trump<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESIDENT Donald Trump could barely contain himself. On the night of Saturday, October 26, he couldn't help tweeting a clue: "Something very big just happened!", He announced cryptically on Twitter. 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