Soleimani’s death has been compared to that of
terrorist leaders such as Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Soleimani
was as evil as those men — he has the blood of hundreds
of Americans and thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of Arabs on
his hands — but the comparison is misleading. Soleimani was not the leader of a
stateless terrorist organization. He was one of the most powerful figures in
the Iranian government. His death makes him the highest-ranking foreign
military commander assassinated by the United States since the shoot-down
in 1943 of an airplane carrying Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the
architect of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Update
Jan 6, 2020, Sayonara,
Soleimani, second letter
