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COMMENTS POLICY

The Comments section of The Long War Journal is intended to provide a forum to discuss and debate current posts. We make no warranty as to the accuracy of readers’ comments, nor do we condone or affirm the opinions of reader-based comments. Discuss the issue at hand and do not go off topic. The Comments section is not a place for a partisan debates. Please be courteous to your fellow commenters. Personal attacks on the editors, authors, or readers of our sites will not be permitted. Please refer to current and former elected officials and public leaders respectfully. Offensive language, cursing (including replacing letters with characters), racial or ethnic slurs, and sexist remarks will not be tolerated. In the interest of keeping the Comments section readable, please post a link to any articles you wish to cite and excerpt the portions of the article that make your points; any comments with the full article will be edited.

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We reserve the right to edit, delete, or decline to publish any comments that violate this policy, and to prevent any repeat offender from commenting.

LIMITATIONS TO USE

The contents of all of our sites are protected by US and international copyright laws. All web-based content and services offered by us are limited to personal and noncommercial use, unless otherwise specified. Content may not be modified, copied, distributed, transmitted, or reproduced in any form, including derivative works, without the prior explicit approval of The Long War Journal. Individuals and noncommercial users may quote, excerpt, and link to content, so long as appropriate attribution is given to The Long War Journal.

FAIR USE NOTICE

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The fair use of such copyrighted material is provided for under US Copyright Law. In accordance with US Code Title 17, Section 107, material on this and other PMI-affiliated sites is viewable for educational and intellectual purposes. For use of any such material from this site for any purposes beyond statutory fair use, permission from the copyright owner is your responsibility.

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