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"This explanation (by the New York Times) of the unfolding events in the Middle East amounts to a willful and self-serving #falsification of history."
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"It is in #Iraq that the shift in US #policy is best exemplified, where Washington is now arming the Shia and pro-Iranian regime (of Nour al-Maliki) with 36 Lockheed Martin F-16IQ Block 52 #fighters to combat the same Sunni Al Qaeda forces that were, until recently, employed as #its proxies in neighbouring Syria."
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"These sordid manoeuvres prove only that every #imperialist power abides by Lord Palmerston's injunction, 'We have #NO eternal allies, and we have NO perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.'" #1848 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston cc @question