Commentary: Suleimani is owed no eulogies, but his record is more complicated than 'evil mastermind'
by Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
Jan 08, 2020
3 minutes
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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