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The Big Sleep in Cairo

By James Jay Carafano
Published August 26, 2013 4:00am ET
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The Big Sleep in Cairo
Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, Syria. (AP/Hassan Ammar) | Hassan Ammar

“I believe it is peace for our time,” declared Neville Chamberlain in 1938. “Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”

Just returned from a peace conference, the British Prime Minister was convinced that the prospect of war between Germany and Western Europe had been nullified. How wrong he was.

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