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        1. With "American blood is on Souleman's hands" as a widely accepted justification for assassination, @GeraldineBrooks reminds the USA: "Iranian Blood Is on Our Hands, Too" nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/us-iran-soleimani.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share #NoWarOnIran #allisNOTwell
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        @GeraldineBrooks Brooks: US Navy's downing of Iran Air 665 civilian flight "wasn’t, in any meaningful sense, accidental — and it killed 290 people, 66 of them children."
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      Brooks: "I visited Khorramshahr, a city that had been reduced to rubble by a barrage of shelling by Saddam Hussein, as well as the civilian neighborhoods of Tehran, which had endured a similar barrage."
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    Brooks: "Having witnessed that destruction, I don’t find it hard to understand why Iran seeks to build up its missile capability. We would, if in its position."
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      This is an act of empathy, of putting oneself in an adversary's position, that is extremely rare in the US media. If it were common, it would be hard to justify war at all.
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