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kleinbl00 · 3866 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Ayatollahs - A look inside 1979’s subterfuge and the lead-up to the Iran-Contra scandal
Yikes! Well, it certainly wasn't my intent. Apologies. I was going with: And elaborating on why it's such an "odd piece." If I were trying to explain the October Revolution and eventual Iran-Contra scandal, this is decidedly not the segment of history - nor the perspective - I would start from. That's all.Huh. This was an odd piece. It started really micro and then ... never particularly went macro, except for this:
user-inactivated · 3866 days ago · link ·
That 'Simarillon' you dismiss so cruelly is my favorite piece of writing in the history of the English language. Defending it from scorn is one of my main goals in life. Anyway yeah. I seem to recall in the past Guernica has done some really good stuff, but this was a weird read.