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Originally Posted by ikalugin
@skybird Ironically he may have been the moderate.
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Sulaimani? A moderate? His name was on my mind since years. "Moderate" is not on my list of adjectives describing him. He was unfortunately very clever and unscrupoulous, which made him outstandingly dangerous, since he was very efficient. Its was a high-IQ target that was taken out here.
Al-Sadr calls his former militia back to arms. As a Westerner you better have no business to do in Iraq anymore. Or Iran. This all can lead to a nasty chapter in the all nasty Iraqi tale. Still I think the uS action was one of the possible and adequate actions. When somethign is a mess anyway, you cannot move without causing messy reactions.