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		vkou on May 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side Al-Qaeda was defeated? How does that reconcile with ISIS popping up a few years later, and Libya and Iraq still being in the grips of civil war?

afterburner on May 30, 2021 [–]

Where do I even start with this. Do you just call all your favourite bad guys "Al-Qaeda" and group them all together as if they were all one organization?

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