How the Soleimani strike could kneecap the fight against ISIS

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. strike that killed Iran’s top military leader could put America’s fight against the Islamic State in jeopardy, opening the door to the reemergence of the terrorist group.

The Thursday night attack on Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani could also prompt the government in Iraq to kick U.S. troops out of the country, ending America’s mission to train the Iraqi military to fight terrorist groups.

U.S. troops have deployed to Iraq since 2014 to fight ISIS and train Iraqi forces with permission from the Iraqi government. As part of this agreement, Iraq asked the U.S. specifically not to target Iran within the country, a request America has now violated “in flagrant fashion” with the strike on Soleimani near the Baghdad airport, said Scott Anderson, a former legal adviser to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

“This is going to put a lot of pressure on those aspects of our relationship they have control over,” Anderson, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Friday. “I strongly suspect we’re going to see action in parliament … that’s going to seek the curtailment if not total withdrawal of those folks.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-the-soleimani-strike-could-kneecap-the-fight-against-isis/ar-BBYAWrh?ocid=msn360

The asshole doesn't think this stuff through does he?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He wanted a distraction from impeachment and to one-up Obama's killing of OBL,

strategy be damned. He's entirely reactive; he never has a strategy for anything.

[Hoyt]

2. Truthfully, no one knows how this will go. We could all be nuked in WWIII tomorrow, or this could

be another blip on the time-line of Middle Eastern hostility that has been going on for decades. I suspect the latter, but who knows. I think we'd been better off if the assassination had not happened, but we won't know for awhile.

Iran has been suffering from sanctions for years, and trump's pulling out of the Nuclear Agreement and increasing sanctions just made things worse.