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In March, a crew of six US sailors were accused of looting a Chinese seafood processor that the US accused was responsible for a series of deadly incidents during the first week of September.
There is no doubt that the Obama administration has been trying hard to keep its war with North Korea from taking off in earnest.
In the coming months, in its war against Isis, the US military is trying to make clear that US bases are the only place in the world, anywhere in the world, in which America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been effective. For the Pentagon, that makes perfect sense, and even though the Isis situation is relatively minor, US forces in Iraq and Syria are far from the only places that are fighting for freedom against radical groups.
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