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Commentary: Suleimani is owed no eulogies, but his record is more complicated than 'evil mastermind'

The American military won't miss Major Gen. Qassim Suleimani. As the mastermind of Iran's foreign military operations, Suleimani, who died Friday in a U.S. airstrike, was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. soldiers over a decade and a half in Iraq.

Yet, though he is owed no eulogies, Suleimani leaves a more complicated record than it might at first seem. Over the years, he proved himself again and again willing to negotiate with his American adversaries. And sometimes he

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