Former General David Petraeus described President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad as the most significant action against terrorism in the Middle East.
“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this particular action. It is more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden or even the death of [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi,” he said in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine.
Petraeus said President Trump had effectively reestablished the idea any Iranian attack against American targets would be met with considerable force.
“This is the most formidable adversary that we have faced for decades,” he said, noting that Soleimani had previously enjoyed considerable power and freedom to act boldly in the region. “This is a very significant effort to reestablish deterrence, which obviously had not been shored up by the relatively insignificant responses up until now.”
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[Retired Gen. David Petraeus was commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and a former CIA director. ]
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ReplyDeleteThis is a significant statement, considering who it's coming from. Petraeus allegedly messed up revealing things to his girlfriend who was a writer, but his bona fides as a general and former head of the CIA certainly qualify him in a unique way to express an opinion here.
ALL Evil Demons were sent back to HELL were they Belong !!!!
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