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William J. Astore, Truthout: 'A line at the tail end of Nicholas Schmidle s article in The New Yorker (August 8, 2011) on SEAL Team Six s takedown of Osama bin Laden captured the military zeitgeist of the moment. Upon meeting the SEAL team, President Obama gushed that the team was, 'literally, the finest small-fighting force that has ever existed in the world.' As a military historian, I was struck by the sweeping nature of that boast. The 'finest small-fighting force' ever in the history of the world? What about the Spartan 300 who gave their all at Thermopylae against the Persians, thereby saving Greek civilization for posterity?'

http://www.truth-out.org/dangerous-myth-american-military-omnipotence/1312896223

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