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Iraq
Ramadi is 80% destroyed
2015-12-31
Gee. Golly. Gosh. Shucks. That's too bad. I suppose sowing the site with salt is out?
Aachen, Frankfort, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe. All blasted to hell and back in a certain war. All pretty much rebuilt (except for East Berlin) within a decade or so. Think Ramadi is going to be picturesque in that time?
The problem is that our forces and influence will be gone in a matter of months. We stayed in Europe and Japan for a coupla generations before kicking the Japs and the Krauts back out on their own. Think our elites will want to hang out with those folks?
Posted by:Frozen Al

#4  I can't top Pappy and grom.
Posted by: Barbara   2015-12-31 18:10  

#3  That's the whole point t of ISIS. Take over the Sunni bits of Iraq and Syria, kill lots of them, and give the Iranians a pretext to move troops in, and kill more when they take it back. Ethnic cleansing with plausible deniability.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2015-12-31 13:30  

#2  So it's "Detroit" then.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-12-31 12:43  

#1  Just do the remaining 20%.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-12-31 04:49  

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