War without end: The U.S. may still be fighting in Syria in 2024, 2034, 2044 . . .

in the news | September 24, 2014

Reuters

Thomas E. Ricks:

National security reporter Thomas E. Ricks, a man not subject to confusion, can’t decide whether to call the latest hostilities a new installment of a new Thirty Years’ War (1991-2021?) or another chapter in the War of the End of the Ottoman Empire (1914-2040?).

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