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And finally, about Syria, there is a now well-known email from Jake Sullivan, who’s the current National Security Adviser, to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from February 12, 2012. So nearly 10 years ago next month. And there’s a line where Sullivan says at the top, “AQ [al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria.” And this was a private email, but it was publicly expressing, I think, a basic fact, which is that when the US chose to wage this multi-billion-dollar dirty war in Syria to overthrow Assad, it was choosing to align with al-Qaeda, and US weapons ended up going to al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-tied groups.

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The US military also collaborated with warlords around the area of Afghanistan/vicinity of, and some of those warlords had child sex-slaves.

Relevant headline:

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies (U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies (Published 2015))

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