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Old 04-09-2015, 11:06   #496
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Re: Unstoppable migration?

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
WW2 was overwhelmingly fought on identifiable battlefronts between opposing, uniformed, disciplined armies. Syria is an asymmetric war and there are at least three or four major factions, many of them not in uniform, not in any way disciplined and, in the case of ISIS, rather fond of brutalising civilians. I would be very careful about trying to apply the situation in Europe in 1945 to Syria in 2015.
I doubt either side has the numbers to deal with that widespread a battle. The front lines are where any fighting is going to happen. Why not stay behind and outnumber ISIS?

It is a general principle that any conflict will not be happening throughout a whole country and there will be safe places to be somewhere in that country.
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