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Comrade Grumpy

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2. Cole seems spot on. I almost choked when Obama described Somalia and Yemen as successes.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 12:56 PM

Sep 2014

No, Obama isn't going to invade Iraq and Syria.

But if what he envisions in Iraq and Syria is akin to what we're doing in Somalia and Yemen, that just sounds like a recipe for the forever war. Limited in scope, but not in duration.

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Cole seems spot on. I almost choked when Obama described Somalia and Yemen as successes. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2014 #2

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