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		gaius on June 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afg... It's reported in The Times that the problem isn't taking territory, but holding it.

caffeine on June 14, 2010 [–]

If you can't hold the territory, then surely it wasn't really "taken" to begin with? More like "visited"?

It is probably a symptom of our ill-calibrated tactics that even the lexicon we use to talk about this is illogical.

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