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Qassem Soleimani and the Bastardful History of U.S. / Iran Relations

Behind the Bastards

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Why the u.s. Military Didn't Run the Show in Our Government

Kasim sulimani's war against the united states in iraq was a textbook case of how to wage a successful insurgent conflict he and his cud's force succeeded in briefly bridging the sunnishii divide among insurgent groups supporting both. He did this by using his connections to the head of intelligence and asad syria to allow sunny extremists to move through syria and across iraq's porous border. This provided huge numbers of foreign fighters to battle american soldiers it also helped establish the networks of syria extremists that years later would coalesce into what we now know as isis. i don't morally blame a military leader who had friends killed by an eFP for

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