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Over the weekend, U.S. foreign policy scrambled¹ to recover from the fatal attack on Iran's General Qassem Soleimani, the head of an elite² military wing active in Iraq, Syria, and other hot spots. The U.S. has interests in all those places.

The Trump³ administration said it was acting⁴ to save American lives.

Senator Gary Peters is the ranking Democrat⁵ on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and also serves on the Armed Services Committee. He's also a veteran of the U.S. Naval⁶ Reserve.

He spoke⁷ to Stateside Monday about President Trump’s decision to attack Soleimani.

Surely Soleimani was a bad actor. I don’t think there’s any disagreement with that fact,” Peters said. “He has blood on his hands and is responsible for the killing⁸ of many American men and women, service members, but certainly this represents an escalation⁹ in what we have seen happen in the Middle East.”

Peters said the outstanding question right now is, was the president acting on an imminent¹⁰ threat as he’s claimed?

I don’t have information related to that, we have not been briefed according to that, however, a briefing will be given to members of the Armed Services Committee and other senators later this week in a classified setting and I think we all come with some questions as to why this happened and, more importantly, what is the long-term strategic consequences of this, how was that thought out, and what sort of long-term strategy do we have in dealing¹¹ with Iraq?” he said.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) has introduced a War Powers Resolution that would stop any further action until Congress gets on board – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote on a similar resolution soon. Peters said if the Senate voted today, it would be difficult to pass the resolution, given the fact that Republican senators are in the majority. He also says Congress needs to reassert itself as the branch of government that has the power to declare war.

Peters said that de-escalation is an important next step, and that discussions need to take place.

There are no diplomatic channels that seem to be open. That should be happening even if you have to go through a third party. You have to have folks talking to each other. What we’re seeing instead is escalation of the rhetoric¹² from both sides, both from President Trump, as well as the Iranian leaders. And the rhetoric could be potentially very dangerous and I’m very concerned about that.

1 scrambled   

v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

5 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

6 naval   

adj.海军的，军舰的，船的

参考例句：

• He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
• The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

9 escalation   

n.扩大，增加

参考例句：

• The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
• Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句

10 imminent   

adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的

参考例句：

• The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
• The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。

11 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

12 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。