Shadow Commander

This was the nickname given to Iran's top military strategist Qasem Soleimani during the shadow war that's been waged between America and Iran for more than a decade now. Actually that war has been going on much, much longer as you may know by now, especially if you've read any of my posts on this subject.

Even today I saw old archive footage of Joe Biden calling for a ground war and regime change in Iran way back in 1998; watch the first linked video and go to the 5:34 minute mark to see this Republican in Democrat's clothes passionately campaign for military action against Iran. This is just to show once more how these eternal wars are completely bipartisan, and why it doesn't matter which party produces the president; foreign and economic policy never really changes as both are governing in name of the rich and corporate America, not for the people of America. This is yet another reason why the only life-long independent, who has fought against the establishment elite of both parties, Bernie Sanders is the only sane choice for my American brothers and sisters come the next elections.

Soleimani came into prominence in Iran during the 8 year long Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s and is a true "child" of the 1979 Iranian revolution; this is the revolution in which Iran took down the British/American puppet regime that had ruled the country since 1953 when the CIA and MI6 organized the uprising and overthrow of the democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh. America and other western forces (even the Dutch had a hand in it) supplied Iraq with weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, in that 8 year war: from the very beginning of his career Soleimani's natural enemy has been the U.S. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought American soldiers into Iran's back-yard, and Soleimani had long before decided that he would do everything in his considerable power to keep the Iraq regime as unstable as possible, so they would never again have the chance to repeat what they did to Iran in the 1980s; the 2003 invasion provided him with a splendid opportunity to make good on this promise.

"I don't think we should view him as an evil person. I think we should view him just like I believe in my country I think Qasem Soleimani believes in his country, just as I would propagate, you know, the aimes of mine he would do his..." - General Stanley McCrystal

Last year, in March 2019, the BBC broadcast an hour long documentary on the life of Iran's Shadow Commander Qasem Soleimani. In that documentary several British and American military dignitaries were interviewed, one of which was American General Stanley McCrystal, and he had some striking remarks. He essentially described himself as the American version of Soleimani; they were both loyal to their countries, their people and their political leaderships, they were both fighting a shadow war complete with inciting insurgencies, targeted assassinations and so on. This is why no one should blindly repeat the politicians and pundits when they call Soleimani a diabolical person or a terrorist even; McChrystal and Soleimani are basically the same, only McChrystal fought on the side of the actual aggressors. Unfortunately you can't find the documentary on YouTube, but I did find a copy on some website in a language I do not know; it's more than worth watching though and you can do that here, although I do caution against it being from the BBC, so expect an overall bias towards western propaganda... If you're just interested in McChrystal's remarks, watch the below linked video (and turn up the volume when they play the clip from the BBC documentary).

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