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Dress Rehearsal for a Mideast War?

RyanM Wrote: Jun 15, 2012 3:27 PM

No, I suspect that most of us would prefer to see an adult in the White House for a change but there are too many ill-informed and/or easily frighten people who didn't vote for Ron Paul. As usual with you people you seem to believe anyone who doesn't support the GOP must be a "liberal". There is a third position where folks believe the GOP and the Democrats not only have more in common than they differ but suck.

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Dress Rehearsal for a Mideast War?

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain.

Observing the uprising in Syria, the atrocities, the intervention by rival powers, it all calls to mind the Great Rehearsal for World War II, the Spanish Civil War.

The war began in 1936 with an uprising in Morocco of Spanish Nationalists against a Madrid regime seen as anti-Catholic, Marxist and Trotskyite. Vladimir Lenin had predicted that Spain would be the second Soviet republic in Europe.

The war would last three years, with Joseph Stalin providing aid to the regime, Benito Mussolini sending troops to fight...

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