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The Magistrate

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3. Decent Analysis, Sir

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 03:05 PM

Sep 2014

All of this is fairly close to a modern version of the old 'air control' policies of England in the inter-war period, and mostly in the same regions: Iraq, Yemen, and the Northwest Frontier.

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

Decent Analysis, Sir The Magistrate Sep 2014 #3