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2018-03-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran has mostly halted harassing US ships in Persian Gulf — Pentagon chief

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 I had no idea Mattis had such a sense of humor.

Posted by gorb 2018-03-16 01:53|| 2018-03-16 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Sink a couple of them, fire cruise missiles at radars that lock you up from the shore and that shit will stop real quick.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-03-16 22:10|| 2018-03-16 22:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The change comes despite increased rhetoric from Washington about Iran’s "malign influence" in the region and US President Donald Trump’s continual railing against the Iran nuclear deal.

"Despite" is the wrong word for this sentence. The appropriate expression is "due to".

Here's an illuminating passage from Wikipedia:

Butterfield is the eponym for "The Butterfield Effect", used to refer to a person who "makes a statement that is ludicrous on its face, yet it reveals what the speaker truly believes", especially if expressing a supposed paradox when a causal relationship should be obvious.[5][6] The particular article that sparked this was titled "More Inmates, Despite Drop In Crime" by Butterfield in the New York Times on November 8, 2004.[7]

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-03-16 22:52|| 2018-03-16 22:52|| Front Page Top

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