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grahamhgreen

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Thu Sep 5, 2013, 10:00 PM Sep 2013

Sun Tzu: "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy.... [View all]

is the noise before defeat."

In my view, this is exactly what Obama is proposing: bombing a few targets in Syria (a tactical move) without having an overall strategy for success. Thus it is doomed to failure from simply a military standpoint, according the the Art of War.

Unless, of course, they actually have a strategy which is regime change to a puppet state at all costs (the neocon plan)......

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