‘We’re Becoming the Terror’: Virginia Senator Hated by ISIS Calls Soleimani Killing ‘Tragedy,’ Warns Against War with Iran

• ‘We’re Becoming the Terror’: Virginia Senator Hated by ISIS Calls Soleimani Killing ‘Tragedy,’ Warns Against War with Iran
  by https://www.rt.com/
  General Qassem Soleimani was among those responsible for defeating Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, and his killing is a “great tragedy” that could result in a “vast war” with Iran, a former Virginia senator and Marine veteran told RT.
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  Soleimani was killed on Thursday in a strike outside Baghdad International Airport, for which the White House admitted responsibility later that evening. In a statement to RT on Friday, retired Virginia Senator Richard Black said the assassination “may presage a new war of aggression—this time, against the Iranian people.”
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  Black noted that the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force had led the fight against both Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists and Al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria.
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  “We are not genuinely fighting a war on terror. I fear that in a sense, we are becoming the terror.”
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  The former senator, who retired at the end of 2019, cautioned against further escalation in the Middle East, recalling a claim predating the 2003 invasion of Iraq that regime change in Tehran was the ultimate objective.
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  “I pray that we draw back from the vast war that looms,” Black added. “Neither our soldiers nor our people have a voice to stop it.”
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