this is an attrition of their capabilities, that s what the president is saying. this is a long-term engagement. there are a couple things to keep in mind and oren mentioned one of them in particular, and that is intelligence is not perfect. we will find out there will be some damage that was absolutely spot on, and there will be others there will be misses in this attack which means you re going to be there for a while. and the second part is we do have a coalition of the willing, we do have other partners as barak has indicated. that s important, and not everyone of those needs to be a shooter, but we do have operations like this. we have folks that will support, watch your back, make sure no one is going to conduct these small patrol boats going to ram or go after these main shooters. the fact the u.k. and the u.s. conducted these strikes, the other play, the other participants had a significant and important role, but they may not have brought the damage
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Today a trove of cabinet papers have been released for the year 2003. They show how the Howard Cabinet quickly approved the controversial decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. But much of the government's deliberations are still secret, with records from the National Security Committee remaining sealed.