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We lost the war on terror.
Not in Kabul or Kandahar. We lost it in the paperwork - in who we designated, who we hosted, and who we invited to dinner.
Tomorrow is 9/11.
Twenty-five years of getting this wrong.
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Assad's officers didn't vanish in December 2024.
They moved to Suwayda, put on a Druze badge, took Israeli salaries, and now they can't even let 13,000 kids sit an exam.
Only 150 made it. Two civilians died. Here's what nobody will say out loud:
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Last week in Syria: the 1979 terror designation lifted. SDF forces merged into the army. 42 chemical bombs destroyed. A Mastercard worked in Damascus for the first time in 15 years!
No attack. No massacre. That's the story
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Madeleine Albright told the KDP and PUK to work together or be eaten alive. Nobody has held that line since. On 30 September the Kurds find out what happens when Washington stops asking anything of you.
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Assad didn't just repress the Kurds. He gave them an opposition he could work with. Hosted Γcalan. Let the PYD form in 2003. Handed over the northeast in 2012 without a fight. That's why Damascus should give Kurdish children their language now.
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Assad had a state, an army, Russia and Iran. ISIS had oil and territory. The PKK had coalition protection and unrestricted aid. Idlib had one patron and an air campaign overhead. Guess which one built the functioning administration.
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Netanyahu rejected the 15-point Gaza disarmament plan Sunday β then ruled out Palestinian statehood in the same breath. Security and statehood aren't the same question. Conflating them is how a war never quite ends.
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