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Africa North
Don’t look now, but guess which Western intervention “success story” is a disaster?
2013-09-04
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#2  This is what happens when traditional seize-n-hold/take, + winning hearts-n-minds, devols into Lefty seize-n-leave + NOT-winning-hearts-n-minds.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-09-04 23:03  

#1  The real disaster is Afghanistan and as I warned years ago, will cause Western nations not to intervene in countries where they have a genuine strategic interest like Syria.

But this is taboo and never mentioned because Afghanistan was 'authorised' by the UN, so everything must be hunkydory.
Posted by: phil_b   2013-09-04 21:53  

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