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Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada.

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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

Giving, Meaning, Relabelling, Subtle, Thinking, War

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

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One of the problems with the media covering this place is that there are stereotypes of news, one of which is "war rages" and the other is "peace dawns. " And there isn't much in between. When I talk to foreign journalists, often they are gritting their teeth because they've been asked for a piece about how shops are reopening and restaurants are reopening and so forth - happy pieces. And it just ain't so.

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There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U. S. line on Assad, there will be more intervention and so forth. But I don't know if that's going to be fulfilled. If there is more intervention, then I think it's going to go the same way as these other interventions that we've seen in Iraq, we've seen, to a degree, in Syria, we've seen in Libya, you know, that they do really badly. They make bad situations worse.

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A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

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