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A more dangerous threat, laden with ominous implications, is Trump citing the possibility of killing Ayatollah Khamenei: “We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” to precipitate a regime change. What sort of global order will we be living in if every head of state can simply kill the head of another state, only because they refused to capitulate or because there is a serious disagreement between them? Have we learned nothing from our experience in Vietnam and Afghanistan? Iraq offers another glaring example of American mishap by invading Iraq and killing Saddam Hussein to effect a regime change. On May 1st, 2003, President George W. Bush declared aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, “mission accomplished,” hoping that the removal of Hussein would lead to a more democratic and stable Iraq. But now we know what happened. We did not liberate but handed Iraq over to Iran, throwing Iraq and the region into greater turmoil, and Tehran benefited the most from the US’ folly. More than 4,400 American troops were killed and 32,000 wounded, and at a staggering cost of $1.6 trillion.