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There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Robert Baer

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Robert Baer
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 11
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Intelligence Agent
Non-Fiction Writer
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LA
California
Robert Booker Baer
Robert B. Baer
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Democracy

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If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.
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