General Qasem Soleimani
Frederick Kempe, CNBC: 3 reasons slain General Soleimani is irreplaceable loss for Iranian regime
* One must travel to the Middle East to better sense the earthquake set off by the US drone strike that killed Iran’s legendary General Qasem Soleimani a week ago.
* In this glittering Emirati capital, only some 200 miles from Iranian border, no one doubts that aftershocks are coming.
* The only question is of what nature and magnitude.
ABU DHABI – One must travel to the Middle East to better sense the earthquake set off by the US drone strike that killed Iran’s legendary General Qasem Soleimani a week ago. In this glittering Emirati capital, only some 200 miles from Iranian border, no one doubts that aftershocks are coming.
The only question is of what nature and magnitude.
After all, this is a place that knows the power of Mideast leaders to build, in the case of their Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan and his father. Or to destroy, as Emiratis have witnessed across much of the rest of their neighborhood for all too long. Talk to top officials here, and they feel that those who don’t know their region underestimate the enormity of the Soleimani killing.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 12, 2020
Iran keeps concocting fake news on downed jet -- Stephen Bryen, Asia Times
AP Analysis: New questions rise as Iran says it downed plane -- Jon Gambrell, AP
Iran could see renewed unrest after admitting its military was responsible for downing plane, says expert -- CBC
Iran's handling of plane disaster sparks new challenge to rulers -- Parisa Hafezi and Tuqa Khalid, Reuters
How US-Iran tensions have undermined Iraq's peaceful uprising -- Zahra Ali, Middle East Eye
Iraqis fear emergence of new battlefront between US, Iranian forces -- Sam Bradpiece And Lucile Wassermann, France
Are U.S. military leaders prepared to withdraw from Iraq? -- PBS
Eight Reasons the U.S. and Iraq Need Each Other -- David Pollock, Washington Institute
Claim That Trump Lacks a Strategy Rings False -- Conrad Black, New York Sun
A new era for Oman nears under Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said -- Leah Carter, DW
Oman's new Sultan faces diplomatic, economic challenges -- Timour Azhari, Al Jazeera
Oman power transfer ‘hastened’ by Soleimani killing -- Alison Tahmizian Meuse, Asia Times
Entangled US-China-Taiwan relations likely just got more complicated after President Tsai Ing-wen’s big re-election victory -- Sarah Zheng, SCMP
Five Challenges for the European Union -- Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, National Interest
Democrats conflicted over how to limit Trump's war powers -- Alexander Bolton, The Hill
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have their own wealth. But how will they earn money? -- ABC News Online
6 comments:
Frederick Kempe of CNBC writes of the "Legendary" Iranian general killed by Trump. LOL "lengendary" is such an overstatement, written by Kempe, who is obviously a sycophant accustomed to kissing Iranian ass.
foolish
Frances Townsend, a former Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush, expressed a thought that will have occurred to many observers. “A country that cannot competently operate its air defense system aspires to possess #nuclear weapons! Really?! Just contemplate that for a moment.”
Eight rockets landed on an Iraqi air base Sunday and injured four Iraqi officers—but who perpetrated the attack remains unclear. Iraq's military says the Katyusha rockets struck Balad Air Base, which hosts foreign contractors and US troops roughly 46 miles north of Baghdad, CNN reports. Al Jazeera notes that the base also hosts US trainers, advisers, and a company that maintains F-16 aircraft. Most of the US airmen stationed there had left before the missiles arrived.
no one is irreplaceable
A crusader not so go to hell
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