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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by pofilat on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:57AM (#17374982)
The US occupied Iraq for over a decade, and installed a new government. The US spent a little time in the Balkans and Somalia and then gave up. There's a difference.
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by 394549 on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:29PM (#17375747)
> The US occupied Iraq for over a decade, and installed a new government. The US spent a little time in the Balkans and Somalia and then gave up. There's a difference.

A similar difference to the one that motivated its even longer occupation of the oil-less Afghanistan.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by trophycase on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:55PM (#17375498)
So removing Saddam and stabilizing the power vacuum aren't justifications for spending 10 years?
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