Soleimani s death fulfills his endeavors to drive the U.S. forces out of Iraq – Former Obama administration adviser
Washington – North-Press Agency
Hadeel Oueiss
Joel Rubin, a former adviser in the Obama Administration hascsaid in an interview with North-Press: “Today, with his death, Soleimani is achieving a goal that he sought for years, which is to expel the U.S. forces out of Iraq.”
He added: "Trump's hasty decision today insults the U.S. presence, U.S. forces, and the resources we spent in Iraq, as our forces are expelled through the parliament we claimed was the democracy that we brought to Iraq, which is similar to the embarrassment which Trump has put the United States in Syria, when he withdrew suddenly Leaving the troops and allies of the United States under Turkey’s fire and the advance of the Russians, which would make the shape of the U.S. withdrawal from the region unnatural and fail the United States ability to influence the region in the future."
Michael McFall, a professor at Stanford University, wrote that the attack on Iran will not help deter Iran and its subversive behavior in the region. Rather, it will embarrass the United States and make it lose its legal presence in Iraq forever. After the Iraqi Prime Minister has demanded the U.S. forces out of Iraq, there will be no legal excuse to stay, which means that the Trump administration has handed Iraq over to the Iranian regime on a platter of gold to carry out a political parade that benefits the Trump administration but facing isolation.
While the U.S. President Donald Trump has responded to criticism about not informing lawmakers in advance of the strike that killed Iran's Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, saying he does not need a "green light" from the Congress. Trump wrote in a tweet on Sunday that his media posts "represent a notice to the U.S. Congress that if Iran attacks any American person or point, the United States will respond quickly and completely.”
And generally, the Democratic and Republican parties support major military operations launched by the U.S. forces outside the country, same as happened in 2011, when the U.S. special forces killed the leader of "Al Qaeda" Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. However, this consensus has disappeared in the recent years, and the attack that led to the killing of Soleimani was the best indication of the extent of acute polarization in the U.S. Congress.
The violent reaction against Trump's decision, to eliminate Soleimani in a process that Trump officially informed Congress on Saturday about 48 hours after it was over, was led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, prompting her to say that this happened "without consulting the Congress." The House of Representatives will vote this week on a law limiting President Trump's military moves against Iran, as Pelosi announced.