Peace on hold: Welcome to 2020

Peace on hold! Welcome to 2020

The Pentagon said late Thursday night that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump.

Soleimani has been called the head of Iran’s regional security apparatus.

He was killed at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, Iranian state television and three Iraqi officials said..

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The 2019 armistice

It was the year 1919.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed.. a cease fire ended hostilities..

World War I had just ended.. Those of us who remember those fun tales from from history class know that it was termed ‘the war to end all wars.’

Instead power brokers created an entirely new version of the Middle East, one that seemingly has doomed the world to eternal conquest and quagmire..

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