it is done. that is the military solution. what you are not willing to say is that there was another military solution, which was to support a very, very slow peace building operation. what they are going to do is they are going to do the reverse of what we did. they are going to say, we are going to stay armed as long as it takes to build an islamic emirate. and we will use force, and we will use violence to make sure that you comply until it is so second nature, we don t need to any more. as long as it takes is interesting, because in your speech in the house of commons, you talked again and again about patience. is that in the round? is that what you think is missing in western democracy? a willingness to do this for10, 20, 30, a0 more years? this is the south korea point, the germany point, the cypress point. we have had troops on the ground in cyprus since the 60s keeping that
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