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Oh, FFS. It's more than one thousand times Libya's. Sorry, guys. I promise you don't want to know how little sleep I've been getting lately. :-D On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Joseph Catron <jncat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, that should of course be "literally *more *than one-thousandth > Libya's." > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Joseph Catron <jncat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism < >> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: >> >> Over a 7 month period, NATO carried out thousands of strike >>> sorties over Libya, killed thousands of Qaddafi's soldiers, hundreds of >>> tanks and other vehicles, took out his air power and pretty much took >>> away >>> his military advantage. >> >> >> This is a dumb comparison, for some pretty obvious reasons. >> >> One is that Gaza doesn't have any of that stuff to target. The occupation >> is fighting sophisticated guerrilla forces here, not a national army a few >> decades behind the times and best suited for military parades. >> >> Another is that its population density is literally less than >> one-thousandth Libya's. >> >> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934666.html >> >> -- >> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen >> lytlað." >> > > > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com