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tularetom

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2. "military force can only be effective as the prelude to a political solution"

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 06:19 PM

Sep 2014

Those are kind of empty words. Like we're going to bomb some hardasses into seeing the error of their ways.

I'm not at all sure there is a "political solution" to this mess. Short of the British admitting that the creation of a fake country by the Mandate of Mesopotamia was a mistake and allowing the country to be divvied up among the various factions.

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