Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and since 1998 commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations is dead.  He was killed, along with seven others, in a targeted drone strike outside the Baghdad Airport.  I highlight that because the location is very important.

Soleimani was a terrorist by any reasonable definition of the term.  He supplied numerous terrorist organizations around the Middle East with arms, ammunition and explosives.  We must remember that the majority of the IED’s which have killed or dismembered thousands of our servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 were built and supplied by Iranians.  It is obvious that Soleimani was in Iraq to help facilitate the attack on our embassy there and others elsewhere in the country.  Iran, of course is promising retaliation for what they are calling the “murder” of Soleimani.

The Democrats, from the top down, are universally condemning the action authorized by President Trump as “provocative”, which may lead to a war with Iran.  Let’s just step back and consider what has got us to this point in our dealings with that rogue nation.  When Democrat President Jimmy Carter refused to back the Shaw of Iran in1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini was installed as the head of the theocratic Iranian government which remains in power today.  For looking the other way during the Iranian revolution, America was rewarded by Khomeini  by his allowing the takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran by a radical Islamic student group which then held 54 American diplomats and other citizens hostage for 444 days before releasing them just minutes after President Reagan was sworn into office as Carter’s successor.

The Iranians then started a clandestine war against this country and Israel using proxy groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, among many others.  An Iranian backed reign of terror which started in October of 1983 when two truck bombs destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 307 people, including 241 Americans, and has continued in various forms there and in other countries ever since.

Emboldened by a lack of effective response to the Iranians and other Radical Islamist groups during the administration of Democrat Bill Clinton, the American homeland was attacked on September 11, 2001.  So began what has become a series of endless Middle Eastern wars and acts of terror by Iranian backed groups and others, notably the Saudis.

When Democrat Barack Obama was elected President in 2008, his feckless behavior towards Radical Islamic regimes, particularly Iran, led to the overthrow of previously reasonably stable governments in countries like Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.  Obama’s backing of the “Arab Spring” in 2010 culminated in the murder of 4 Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens in the infamous attack by militants on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2012.  Obama’s transfer of 1.7 BILLION dollars in CASH to Iran circumvented the monetary sanctions in place, and was basically fungible, since there was no way to trace where this money ended up, but you can bet much of it went to fund international terrorist organizations funded by Iran under the direction of Qasem Soleimani.

So, as the Democrats vilify President Trump for taking out this international terrorist chief, they again embolden Islamic terrorists around the globe, including here in this country.  If innocent blood is spilled because of this partisan political behavior, it will be on their hands, not Donald Trumps.  Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed “vengeance” for Soleimani’s death. He’d better ponder that threat.  He’s not dealing with a submissive Democrat like Carter, Clinton or Obama this time.