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 | | It will take considerable time to reduce them -- we are, after all, now faced with the task of essentially reconquering a third of the lower Tigris-Euphrates basin -- but it will happen. |
 | | Lots of comparisons to Tet, here, so let's take them at face value and recall that Tet was, militarily, a net victory for the United States and South Vietnam: having risked, and lost, the flower of their fighting men in open battle, the Viet Cong were definitively smashed by the end of 1968. |
 | | As you read this in the cold, comforting, wan glow of your screen, United States Marines are adding Fallujah to the roll call of honor that stretches from our young nation's first defeat of jihad in North African sands, to the beaches of Tarawa and Saipan, to Hue, and beyond. |
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