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The winner of our snap contest is Marine Capt. Adam Thomas. His two entries:  PERSIAN EXCURSION  OBAMA AND HASSAN’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE Rex Brynen, a political science professor at McGill, took 2nd place with these two: SECTARIAN SNAFU ABLE AYATOLLAH Jason Albrecht took third place with: IRONY EAGLE 3 And here are some honorable mentions:  PERSIAN ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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The winner of our snap contest is Marine Capt. Adam Thomas. His two entries: 

The winner of our snap contest is Marine Capt. Adam Thomas. His two entries: 

PERSIAN EXCURSION 

OBAMA AND HASSAN’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

Rex Brynen, a political science professor at McGill, took 2nd place with these two:

SECTARIAN SNAFU

ABLE AYATOLLAH

Jason Albrecht took third place with:

IRONY EAGLE 3

And here are some honorable mentions: 

PERSIAN BIZARRE

PERSIAN SUBVERSION 

SHOCK AND HUH?

OPERATION QOM-BAYAH 

OPERATION MOBY DICK

ISIS CRISIS 

HELLO MARTYR, HELLO FATAH

INFINITE JEST

AYATOLLAH SO

And of course, from Doctrine Man, "OPERATION SHI’ITE STORM."

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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