My big dumb not-a-foreign-policy person question: if the US killed Soleimani, isn't that a massive act of war? I feel like if the Revolutionary Guards killed Petraeus in 2007, we would've been bombing Tehran within hours.

My big dumb not-a-foreign-policy person question: if the US killed Soleimani, isn't that a massive act of war?

I feel like if the Revolutionary Guards killed Petraeus in 2007, we would've been bombing Tehran within hours.

— dylan matthews (@dylanmatt) January 3, 2020