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Ronin83138 for President
by Munich

+1.

The only thing I would add is, under (1), I would say :

"You win over the population, so they'll tell you where the terrorists are and so they don't have the motivation to join the terrorists themselves."

I'm entirely convinced that most civvies in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't really give a crap about us one way or the other 9 years ago.

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