Monday, February 24, 2020

The WaPo reports that Trump's killing Soleimani has really hurt Iranian terrorism

Many Democrats, and a few Republicans, were all upset that Trump had Iranian terrorist mastermind Soleimani killed.

Of course Iranians who Soleimani oppressed and people all through the Middle East who he terrorized, not to mention the families of the Americans Soleimani killed, rejoiced.

We were told by those saddened that there was one less terrorist mastermind in the world that the result would be an increase in Iranian violence.  Well that didn't turn out to be true.

Now the WaPo, as left as can be, is admitting that in fact the entire Iranian terrorism mechanism, the Revolutionary Guard, is reeling because Soleimani is very hard to replace.

[A]nalysts and officials in the region say the Revolutionary Guard in fact now finds itself on the back foot, a notable change after successfully projecting its power in the Middle East over recent years. “The assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the downing of the airliner were both shocks to the Revolutionary Guard. Soleimani was a big loss for the Islamic republic, and the downing of the airliner, it blew the Guard’s entire credibility,” said Saeid Golkar, an expert on Iran’s security forces and a professor of political science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Given that charismatic mass killers are hard to find it's no surprise that Soleimani's replacement isn't filling his predecessors shoes very well.

[A]nalysts and officials say he lacks the ambition, charisma and strong connections of his predecessor. As a result, according to an official in the region with knowledge of the matter, the Quds Force has been significantly deterred from retaliating further against the United States, at least for now.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said Qaani does not yet have the power to freelance the way Soleimani did, coordinating battles and attacks across the Middle East and meeting directly with foreign leaders. The Quds Force, the official said, is suffering both emotionally and practically, and will be restrained until Qaani grows more confident and independent.

Within Iran’s security apparatus, a struggle may already be underway to clip the Quds Force’s wings. According to Golkar, the Revolutionary Guard’s secretive counterintelligence department is likely investigating the security breaches that contributed to Soleimani’s killing in Baghdad last month.

This proves that Trump, not the Democrats was right.  Killing Soleimani has directly reduced the amount of terror that Iran is exporting.

The Quds Force is the core of Iranian terrorist imperialism and any reduction in it's power means fewer Muslims, Christians, and Americans will be killed by Iran.

The fact that the Democrat Presidential candidates will all ignore this tells us that if they're elected they will return to Obama's love of Iran despite Iran's continual chants of "Death to America the Great Satan".

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