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pampango

(24,692 posts) Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:33 AM Jul 2012

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Juan Cole: The Tanks that did not Defeat Misrata (Photo)

Photograph by Juan Cole, May 2012

Line of tanks that Mu’tasim Qaddafi deployed against the civilians of the city of Misrata, Libya, March-August 2011– destroyed and kept as a memorial outside the city.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/07/the-tanks-that-did-not-defeat-misrata-photo.html

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Juan Cole: The Tanks that did not Defeat Misrata (Photo) (Original Post) pampango Jul 2012 OP

Tanks are obsolete, have been since WWII. bemildred Jul 2012 #1

Juan Cole really seems to have his finger zellie Jul 2012 #2

bemildred

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1. Tanks are obsolete, have been since WWII.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:05 AM

Jul 2012

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
-- Barbara Tuchman

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zellie

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2. Juan Cole really seems to have his finger

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:10 AM

Jul 2012

on what goes on there.

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