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DevonRex

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2. Which is exactly why some in the Admin have floated regime change lately. To
Thu Sep 12, 2013, 12:23 PM
Sep 2013

scare the shit out of both Assad and Russia. After 2 long years of Obama refusing to get involved in their civil war, he used that threat to get them to the table as well as the threat of strikes.

It played well into the wild card scenario he has created in which everyone believes he just might be serious. Even the fringe "left" at home.

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