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US Sends Abu Taqwa To Meet The General
Fire at will, apparently.
A PMF leader was killed in Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a series of US and Israeli strikes against Iran-linked operators and proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi (stage name Abu Taqwa) was a deputy operations chief for the PMF, the coalition of predominately Shiite Iraqi militia which, with allowances for recent splits and rifts, have in the past answered mostly to the Quds.
Over the past three months -- which is to say since the onset of
Not a person of faith, but as an itinerant rabbi active in Galilee and Judea some two thousand years ago was alleged to have said: “Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
We in this country purposely ignore this particular teaching of the master as it has never been particularly useful to those of us who thirst for blood. We’re really not good at turning the other cheek either.
The Clark Griswold lines were the perfect aside to weigh on the gravity of the quotes post-assassination.