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Barack Obama does not want to repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria, with air-strikes carried out by NATO; he even fears an indirect role for NATO in ground operations.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament? Raghida Dergham 2011
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Barack Obama does not want to repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria, with air-strikes carried out by NATO; he even fears an indirect role for NATO in ground operations.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament? Raghida Dergham 2011
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But to use the Irish analogy, how popular would the Brits have been in Ireland if, when the Grand Hotel got blown up, we'd started air-strikes and cluster-bombed the Falls Road?
Israel: Learning From History Dungeekin 2009
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The UN's decision cleared the way for air-strikes against Gadhafi's forces.
Geopolitical Headwinds Lift Gold Prices Tatyana Shumsky 2011
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Barack Obama does not want to repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria, with air-strikes carried out by NATO; he even fears an indirect role for NATO in ground operations.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament? Raghida Dergham 2011
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So to sum it up, those Arabs are not rational human beings like us, but perhaps if we kill enough of their wives and children via air-strikes on residential areas, they will finally understand our reasonable demands.
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Barack Obama does not want to repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria, with air-strikes carried out by NATO; he even fears an indirect role for NATO in ground operations.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament? Raghida Dergham 2011
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A long-time critic of American air-strikes into Pakistan, top JI leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed last month threatened to organize civilians to “create hurdles” against NATO supplies if the strikes continued.
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A long-time critic of American air-strikes into Pakistan, top JI leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed last month threatened to organize civilians to “create hurdles” against NATO supplies if the strikes continued.
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As the Iranian crisis intensifies, and negotiations at the UNSC drag out, hawks have called for air-strikes targeting the regime's nuclear facilities.
Sigurd Neubauer: Tea Partiers, Watch Out: Obama's Iran Policies Echo Bush's Sigurd Neubauer 2010
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