Phil Giralidi, The Soleimani Assassination: The Long-Awaited Beginning of The End of America’s Imperial Ambitions

The United States is now at war with Iran in a conflict that could easily have been avoided and it will not end well. There will be no declaration of war coming from either side, but the assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani and the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah Abu Mehdi Muhandis by virtue of a Reaper drone strike in Baghdad will shift the long-simmering conflict between the two nations into high gear. Iran cannot let the killing of a senior military officer go unanswered even though it cannot directly confront the United States militarily. But there will be reprisals and Tehran’s suspected use of proxies to stage limited strikes will now be replaced by more damaging actions that can be directly attributed to the Iranian government. As Iran has significant resources locally, one can expect that the entire Persian Gulf region will be destabilized.

And there is also the terrorism card, which will come into play. Iran has an extensive diaspora throughout much of the Middle East and, as it has been threatened by Washington for many years, it has had a long time to prepare for a war to be fought largely in the shadows. No American diplomat, soldier or even tourists in the region should consider him or herself to be safe, quite the contrary. It will be an “open season” on Americans. The U.S. has already ordered a partial evacuation of the Baghdad Embassy and has advised all American citizens to leave the country immediately.

Donald Trump rode to victory in 2016 on a promise to end the useless wars in the Middle East, but he has now demonstrated very clearly that he is a liar. Instead of seeking detente, one of his first actions was to end the JCPOA nuclear agreement and re-introduce sanctions against Iran. In a sense, Iran has from the beginning been the exception to Trump’s no-new-war pledge, a position that might reasonably be directly attributed to his incestuous relationship with the American Jewish community and in particular derived from his pandering to the expressed needs of Israel’s belligerent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump bears full responsibility for what comes next. The neoconservatives and Israelis are predictably cheering the result, with Mark Dubowitz of the pro-Israel Foundation for Defense of Democracies enthusing that it is “bigger than bin Laden…a massive blow to the [Iranian] regime.” Dubowitz, whose credentials as an “Iran expert” are dubious at best, is at least somewhat right in this case. Qassem Suleimani is, to be sure, charismatic and also very popular in Iran. He is Iran’s most powerful military figure in the entire region, being the principal contact for proxies and allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. But what Dubowitz does not understand is that no one in a military hierarchy is irreplaceable.  Suleimani’s aides and high officials in the intelligence ministry are certainly more than capable of picking up his mantle and continuing his policies.

In reality, the series of foolish attacks initiated by the United States over the past week will only hasten the departure of much of the U.S. military from the region. The Pentagon and White House have been insisting that Iran was behind an alleged Kata’ib Hezbollah attack on a U.S. installation that then triggered a strike by Washington on claimed militia targets in Syria and also inside Iraq. Even though the U.S. military presence is as a guest of the Iraqi government, Washington went ahead with its attack even after the Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said “no.”

 

To justify its actions, Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense, went so far as to insist that “Iran is at war with the whole world,” a clear demonstration of just how ignorant the White House team actually is. The U.S. government characteristically has not provided any evidence demonstrating either Iranian or Kata’ib involvement in recent developments, but after the counter-strike killed 26 Iraqi soldiers, the mass demonstrations against the Embassy in Baghdad became inevitable. The demonstrations were also attributed to Iran by Washington even though the people in the street were undoubtedly Iraqis.

Now that the U.S. has also killed Suleimani and Muhandis in a drone strike at Baghdad Airport, clearly accomplished without the approval of the Iraqi government, it is inevitable that the prime minister will ask American forces to leave. That will in turn make the situation for the remaining U.S. troops in neighboring Syria untenable. And it will also force other Arab states in the region to rethink their hosting of U.S. soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen due to the law of unanticipated consequences as it is now clear that Washington has foolishly begun a war that serves no one’s interests.

The blood of the Americans, Iranians and Iraqis who will die in the next few weeks is clearly on Donald Trump’s hands as this war was never inevitable and served no U.S. national interest. It will surely turn out to be a debacle, as well as devastating for all parties involved. And it might well, on top of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, be the long-awaited beginning of the end of America’s imperial ambitions. Let us hope so!

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13 thoughts on “Phil Giralidi, The Soleimani Assassination: The Long-Awaited Beginning of The End of America’s Imperial Ambitions”

    1. Ludicrous beyond words. Iran had nothing to do with 9/11. It was an Israeli op, brought to us compliments of the CIA, the Neocons in the Department of Defense (most of whom are dual US-Israeli citizens), and the Mossad (to create a pretext for the US entering the Middle East and taking out the modern Arab states that served as a counter-balance to Israel’s domination of the entire region and then to confront the Persian nation of Iran. See “9/11: Who was responsible and why”, https://www.bitchute.com/video/E3YaOLqzcwzF/

      1. Jim is very correct about 9/11. Bush sat in that Florida school room with knowing ”shock” on his face. His demeanor was ”OMG, they’ve actually done it”. I’m sure he knew about it in advance and was briefed beforehand.

        The Mossad ”art students” were actually Israeli Army explosives experts. They placed explosives on the 92 floor of the Towers to simulate a plane crash, hence the huge amount of debris flying out of the buildings.

  1. Trumpberg finally took his undying love for Israel too far. Now the Dems have a VALID reason to impeach him….were they waiting for this….?
    Could be it’s all theater, folks. This is ACT II. Act III will be that flash outside your window, eh?
    “Come as you are!”

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  2. Q.S. is responsible for killing over 600 US soldiers over the past 20 years mostly by planning roadside IED attacks. He was planning more violence against US forces in the area when President Trump decided it was time to take him out.

    .There’s a large element of Iranians who feared and hated QS and are very happy he’s gone.

    Yes, most of the recent attackers on the US Embassy were Iraqis. Their leader and organizer was QS.

    Iran STILL holds the US Embassy in Tehran. Its attack on the US Tehran embassy in 1979 was an act of war.
    Iran has been at war with the US for a very long time…at least the past 50 years.

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    1. Don, You are usually so astute, but you have missed the mark by a mile here. Iraqis have plenty of good reasons to attack the US Embassy. If US troops were killed because of actions in which he had a part in the planning. that was clearly defensive on the part of the Iraqis, Syrians, Russians and Iranians who are coping with the US invasion. We are there in violation of international law. WE are the AGGRESSORS. WE ARE THE TERRORISTS. He was a brilliant, courageous and wise military leader, diplomat and political advisor to the Supreme Leader. Killing him was an act of monumental stupidity. It has been an unwritten rule of the conduct of war not to assassinate the leaders of the nations in conflict. Trump has now invited his own assassination. He has committed an egregious blunder. Iran will retaliate. We won’t like it. But, sadly, WE WILL DESERVE IT!

  3. The incredibly stupid American people will never wake up to the fact that:

    1. Trump is a Jew puppet.
    2. Jews control the USA.
    3. The American people pay the (mercenary) US military to advance the Greater Israel Plan.

    Jew media control extends to Alex Jones who claimed today on his show (with a straight face) that it is Iran that is trying to take over the world!

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      1. Thanks, RS…but I’ll pass and take your word. Time is too valuable to search for his blatherings.

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