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Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 09:23 AM

Sep 2014

The US dropped enormous numbers of bombs on Iraq since 2003, and in the end its sponsored government lost 40% of the country to ISIL. Bombing positions in Syria in the absence of an allied ground force is highly unlikely to be decisive in and of itself.

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