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July 13, 2012

Syria a 'Cockpit' for Proxy Wars

Michael Burleigh, Daily Mail

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Syria has also become a 'cockpit' for much larger regional conflicts, rather in the way that Spain did during the 1930s, a convenient place for proxy wars.

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