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pipoman

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6. Exactly what I was going to point out..

Reply to cali (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 18, 2013, 07:57 AM

Jun 2013

without the help of the French, the US revolution likely would have turned out much differently..no, the OP is inaccurate in that almost every successful regime change/revolution has hinged on assistance from other nations..I can't think of any which haven't..

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Syria: If People Don't Do Their Own Damn Revolution, It Won't Work [View all] marmar Jun 2013 OP

du rec. xchrom Jun 2013 #1

lotta truth to that. . . . n/t annabanana Jun 2013 #2

If all we're doing is helping one side in a power struggle, then it's a coup, not a revolution. hobbit709 Jun 2013 #3

Yes indeed WovenGems Jun 2013 #5

Its is an invasion not a sectarian war rastaone Jun 2013 #12

Sunni WovenGems Jun 2013 #13

that's an awful piece. cali Jun 2013 #4

Exactly what I was going to point out.. pipoman Jun 2013 #6

Maybe I'm just too nitpicky but this kind of ahistorical stuff drives me nuts cali Jun 2013 #7

Even if a revolution is started from the ground, the elites will step in and rhett o rick Jun 2013 #8

I wonder when Assad suddenly became a dictator? He was an 'ally' when we were driving sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #9

In the face of a reported over 90,000 dead in this outrage, I think that Syria has not reached a marble falls Jun 2013 #10

It has hardly been mentioned watoos Jun 2013 #11

Hartmann's history is wrong on nearly all counts. blackspade Jun 2013 #14