General Qasem Soleimani
On January 3, 2020, the United States and Israel, the Apartheid Entiy, killed him—deliberately, with malice aforethought. And each year, his assasination is memorialized.
The idea behind commemorating someone, particularly a person who is dead, is based on a concept that the individual will eventually be forgotten if this is not done.
Well, Qasem Soleimani, the exceedingly capable commander of Iran’s Quds Force, does not and will not need his memory burnished, remembered, or praised. His nature, actions, knowledge, and skills were, are now, and will ever be bright. There is no need to remember them because they will shine far into the future.
But, for the record (and for the truly ignorant), let’s tick off some of the significant features of such a marvelous man.
· He did not magically appear, fully-formed and ready for history.
· Gen. Soleimani was born into a poor, rural family—indebted by “loans” from the repulsive, repressive Shah. As a young man, he worked hard to pay off those loans—as any good son would do. And he did it through construction, i.e., building up rather than tearing down. A very physically demanding job. Partly as a consequence, despite his native intelligence, he did not receive a proper, formal education.
· Joining the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 1979, the year of the second Iranian revolution, he rose quickly through the ranks because of his wit and intellect.
· Qasem Soleimani moved rapidly through important battles and actions designed to strengthen his country: from battling separatists in northwest Iran to retaking lands seized by Iraq during its eight-year war against Iran. As commander of the 41st Tharallah Division, in his 20s, he established relations with the “Kurdish Iraqi leaders” and the “Shia Badr Organization,” both of which were opposed to Saddam Hussein. In these efforts, he became fluent in Arabic, an entirely different linguistic group from his native Farsi.
· The General didn’t just combat physical enemies having rifles, tanks, and aircraft. He also fiercely fought a universal scourge: drug trafficking. He blocked a good bit of Afghan opium from reaching Europe and the United States, arresting many transporting that deadly substance.
· Appointed to the Quds Force in the late 1990s, he was credited with developing the strategy that prevented the overthrow of the legitimate Syrian government—by United States-sponsored terrorists. He also had to contend with the invading American and Turkish forces. He trained local militias there and coordinated decisive military actions against foreign extremists.
· Soleimani had also played a key role in Iran’s fight against the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS). He is known to have brought the Kurdish and Shi’ite forces together to jointly combat ISIS, overseeing the entire operation himself. He was also seen as fearless during the Iraq war; he did not lead from the rear as American generals do, but from the battlefield itself; moreover, he never wore body armor, even when he was on the front lines. That is REAL bravery. In November 2014, the Kurdish and Shi’ite forces under Soleimani’s command pushed ISIS out of many villages. This was in spite of American support for those terrorists.
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