It's difficult to imagine that when President Trump authorized the hit against General Qassem Soleimani, neither he nor his advisers anticipated that Iran would use the event as the official reason to withdraw from Obama's toothless Iran deal.  Nevertheless, progressives themselves seem surprised and panicked and are attributing those feelings to Trump.  As usual, they're probably wrong. A brief history is in order.  From day one, President Obama was determined to have a deal with Iran.  To that end, for example, in 2009 he ignored the Green Revolution protests that might have overthrown the mullahs lest supporting the protesters interfere with his deal.  Likewise, in 2015 he tattled to Tehran when Israel had the chance to kill Soleimani. And then there was the deal itself.  Obama didn't bother trying to stop Iran, the world's greatest terrorist nation, from becoming a...(Read Full Post)