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Once upon a time, there lived a cunning fly. Far from being ordinary, the cunning fly craved destruction. So one day, the cunning fly decided that its first target would be an old china shop. The problem, however, was that the cunning fly was too small and weak to destroy anything. After much thinking, it made a plan: to buzz inside the ear of a powerful bull. The plan worked. The powerful bull, so angry from the buzzing in its ear, entered a fearsome rage. Amidst the fearsome rage, everything inside the old china shop was destroyed. The cunning, and now jubilant fly, could not have wished for anything more perfect.

The above paragraph can be made applicable to Iraq. Al-Qaeda, for example, got inside the ear of the United States, who in …show more content…

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