Killing of Iranian general scrambles Democrats' 2020 race, shifting focus to war and peace
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's order for the targeted killing of a top Iranian general has scrambled the 2020 campaign, thrusting issues of war and peace to the center of a contest that so far has been dominated by domestic issues.
The slaying abruptly sharpened Democrats' disagreements about the U.S. role in the world, personified by the sparring between the front-runners for their party's nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden, who's had a hand in decades of U.S. foreign policy, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an anti-interventionist critic of those policies.
The president's strike order against Gen. Qassem Soleimani late last week also crystallized what Americans love or hate about Trump: It was the kind of impulsive, muscular show of force that fans embrace as his tough-guy swagger, but critics fear
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