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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." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
