But the root causes of Mexico's cartel war precede Calderón's intervention.
While there is an active American Legion post in the area, nearly all of its 215 members are from wars preceding those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When he told me his story, Gasore never brought up the defining cataclysms of recent Rwandan history: the genocide of 1994, or the civil war that preceded it and the renewed war that devastated the northwest in its aftermath.
"A world war both preceded and followed by a civil war, in conjunction with the demands placed by total obedience to a religious order, make this gap of eight years not a very surprising one".
And it became obvious to me that all of them, all of us, were touched in one way or another — some more, some less — by their war or the wars that preceded and followed it.
They scarcely mention America's two Iraq wars, and they ignore the eight-year Iran-Iraq War that preceded them, which they presumably regard as a border dispute.
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The four-day ground war was preceded by more than five weeks of bombardment.
(That victory was in many ways a tragedy for the Vietnamese, though the war that preceded it had been, too).
Many have little idea about this contested history – the nice miracle story about the light occluding the more complicated story of the religious war that preceded it.
