On Sunday, responding to CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” consistently attacking President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as Tapper kept pressing about the intelligence that showed the arch-terrorist was an imminent threat, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, quietly exasperated, finally snapped, “I’d rather be here discussing this topic with you than going up to Dover Air Force Base and standing there while flag-draped coffins come home.”
The exchange that prompted Esper’s remark went like this:
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