Posted on 01/02/2020 8:42:45 PM PST by Helicondelta
Today the United States killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force. The United States is now in a hot war with Iran after having waged war via proxies for the past several decades.
This doesn’t mean war, it will not lead to war, and it doesn’t risk war. None of that. It is war.
I do not know of a single Iranian who was more indispensable to his government’s ambitions in the Middle East. From 2015 to 2017, when we were in the heat of the fighting against the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, I would watch Soleimani shuttle back and forth between Syria and Iraq. When the war to prop up Bashar al-Assad was going poorly, Soleimani would leave Iraq for Syria. And when Iranian-backed militias in Iraq began to struggle against the Islamic State, Soleimani would leave Syria for Iraq.
Qassem Soleimani was the adult supervision. He was spread thin over the past decade, but he was nonetheless a serious if nefarious adversary of the United States and its partners in the region. And Iran and its partners will now feel his loss greatly.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
If Iran chooses to play other cards, they’ll lose more military leaders.
Trump’s NOT Jimmah Carter and Mike Pompeo’s NOT Neville Chamberlain
——It is war-—
Wrong tense
It has been war is the correct tense
then there is the past tense....... The Atlantic was
Iran doesn’t want to wage war against Trump... Our greatest risk of war will be with some future democrat President who is afraid of war but unwilling to pay Iran the billions they’ll want.
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