Tony Grist (poliphilo) wrote,
Tony Grist
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Extraordinary

An extraordinary thing just happened. A US president called off an air strike because it would have caused a hundred and fifty eight deaths and he felt that was an inappropriate response to the shooting down of an unmanned drone. When I heard the news it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.
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