(Commentary) Michael Rubin - Brig.-Gen. Esmail Qaani, deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qods Force, bragged to a group of Iranian veterans about how little the U.S. has been able to do to counter the growth of Iranian influence. He also bragged about how "America has suffered more losses from us than we have suffered losses from them." It was the Qods Force that smuggled explosively-formed, armor-penetrating projectiles into Iraq for insurgents to murder Americans. The writer, a former Pentagon official who dealt with Middle East issues, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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