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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When has a 12% minority ever defeated a 72% majority in world history? I can think of no such example and I’m a pretty big history buff. Can anyone here show me such an occasion?

ISIS? Only 10 to 20,000 fighters taking over most of Iraq.

22 posted on 08/18/2014 1:01:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

That was after what amounts to a civil war, religious war, insurgency and invasion, all rolled into one. Have we had any of those here since 1865?


27 posted on 08/18/2014 1:03:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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