Two Questions to Ask Now That Qassem Soleimani Is Dead
The real questions are not of morality (did he have it coming?) but of timing.
by Graeme Wood
Jan 03, 2020
3 minutes
Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force who was killed in Iraq yesterday, was the most successful military figure of his time. One should grade success not in absolute terms, but by and on that scale, Soleimani was a prodigy. The end of his career is as pivotal in the region as the retirement of an athlete who has dominated his sport, or a musician whose sound, once unique, somehow has become imitated by every young crooner out there. One difference is that
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