For anyone who wants more background on Suleimani, this New Yorker piece [0] about him from 2013 is detailed and interesting.

A quick excerpt, if you don't have time for it all:

Suleimani took command of the Quds Force fifteen years ago, and in that time he has sought to reshape the Middle East in Iran’s favor, working as a power broker and as a military force: assassinating rivals, arming allies, and, for most of a decade, directing a network of militant groups that killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned Suleimani for his role in supporting the Assad regime, and for abetting terrorism. And yet he has remained mostly invisible to the outside world, even as he runs agents and directs operations. “Suleimani is the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today,” John Maguire, a former C.I.A. officer in Iraq, told me, “and no one’s ever heard of him.”

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-com...

Thanks. Just the sort of thing I was looking for, but did not realize.

Glad to be of service :-)

I wonder if anyone knows we are now at war with Iran. I honestly don't know what will happen. This is really, really bad. There could be tens of thousands of casualties by the weekend.

You could argue that a state of war has existed since the Iranian Revolutionary Council approved the invasion of the US Embassy in Tehran, the murder of workers, and the taking of hostages.

Just Iran? If he was at Baghdad Airport then he's presumably a guest of their country and this is an act of war against Iraq as well.

He wasn't at the airport, he was in a convoy near the airport.

I read that Iraqis died during the strike as well.

We got a shoe. Simple times.

He's not wrong. What happens if the US gets mired in 3rd war?How are we going to pay for it?

That’s absurd. US is almost 30% of the world GDP and growing as a proportion. It is Iran that can’t afford war.

Iranian military power is weakest its been and getting weaker, it is no match in any sense for US military power. The US is not going to occupy Iran but it can put them into the dark ages in matters of hours and probably eliminate most of their military.

An Iranian terrorist general constantly plotting cowardly attacks against innocents well deserved assassination by drone outside of his own country.

There is no such thing as invasion defensive war that can't be afforded. You do it or you die. A rag tag bunch of colonies defeated the most powerful empire in the world, twice. This isn't a video game. The oceans don't protect us like they did in ww2 and ww1.

The US is not thinking about invading Iran. There is absolutely 0% domestic political support which even if somehow Iran foolishly tries to use 911 type terrorism as a retaliation is not going to generate political support for another pointless occupation.

I hope that's right. I also hope Trump isn't up to something worse than occupation.

This is just a preview

https://www.rt.com/news/477489-trump-iran-strike-targets/?ut...

> An Iranian terrorist general constantly plotting cowardly attacks against innocents well deserved assassination by drone outside of his own country.

Let's bomb China, next! All that fentanyl they are shipping over here kills 11,000 per year. Surely they deserve it, too.

Well the equivalent would be the Chinese drug lord boss found in Manilla while moving a large shipment and then taken out by a CIA drone.

That sounds very reasonable and I can’t imagine what you are opposed to, what exactly is the problem with either what happened or the scenario in Manilla?