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Friday, April 06, 2007
"Fighting Back Was Not An Option"
Posted by: Dean Barnett at 10:23 AM

That’s what the released English marines said. They were outnumbered and outgunned. The Iranians had them surrounded. They don’t regret a thing. They couldn’t have won.

"Fighting back was not an option" - Will those words someday be the epitaph of the Western World?

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